# A Courtesan, in Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro designed this. It is now at The Met in New York.

[Read the full label](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-courtesan-met-40601#about-work)

## The work

- Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: H. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm); W. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1663
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Kitagawa Utamaro](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/kitagawa-utamaro), Japanese, c.1753–1806

Utamaro trained with the painter Toriyama Sekien and rose to fame in the 1790s with the support of the publisher Tsutaya Jūzaburō.

12 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Kitagawa Utamaro's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-kitagawa-utamaro?hang=750) (8 works)
- [More Ukiyo-e](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/ukiyo-e?hang=750) (172 works)
- [18th-century Japan](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-japan?hang=750) (92 works)

## Get it

- [Print this work](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-courtesan-met-40601#print)
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- [The work's page](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/a-courtesan-met-40601)