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Man and Young Woman with a Ball

Man and Young Woman with a Ball

Kitagawa Utamaro

1754–1806

Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: H. 23 1/2 in. (59.7 cm); W. 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
Genre: Prints
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Kitagawa Utamaro, 1795

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Man and Young Woman with a Ball by Kitagawa Utamaro — VisualArtsDB