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In the Kitchen by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB

In the Kitchen

In the Kitchen

Kitagawa Utamaro

1794–1795

Medium: Right-hand sheet of a diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 15 × 10 in. (38.1 × 25.4 cm)
Genre: Prints
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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