# French Woman and Girl, from the series Foreign Merchants in Yokohama (Yokohama shōka ijin no zu), in The Floating World

Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide designed this in 1st month, 1861, aged 54. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: 1st month, 1861
- Medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 14 1/2 x 9 7/8 in. (36.8 x 25.1 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.49.123
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/utagawa-gountei-sadahide), Japanese, 1807–1873

Sadahide trained under Utagawa Kunisada and became the leading designer of Yokohama-e, pictures of foreigners and their customs made after the port of Yokohama opened to Western trade in 1859.

6 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/utagawa-gountei-sadahide?hang=749) (6 works)
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