Property of various owners ATTRIBUTED TO HISHIKAWA MOROFUSA (ACTIVE LATE 17TH CENTURY)Beauty Reading with Her Attendant Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th century A hanging scroll in ink, color, and gold on silk of a beauty sitting in front of a two-panel folding screen depicting flowers of autumn, an open book perched on her bent knee, an attendant seated to the right, sealed Morofusa With a futomaki wood roller and a wood storage box that fits the scroll and rollerbined 12 3/8 x 15 1/8in (31.4 x 38.4cm) Provenance: Christie's auction October 26, 1998, "An Important Collection of Japanese Ukiyo-e Paintings", lot 18 Exhibited: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozō (Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art), exhibition venues: Sendai City Museum, Sendai, June 11-July 17, 1988 Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, September 6-October 9, 1988 Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, October 20, November 13, 1988 Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi (Fashion of Edo: Women's Dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings, Exhibition Celebrating the Museum's Opening), June 14-July 2, 1989 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 15, 1992-February 7, 1993