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Artist in the Global Art Registry
Ishikawa Toyonobu
1711–1785 · Japanese
- Born
- 1711 · Tokyo
- Died
- 1785
47 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Ishikawa Toyonobu was a Japanese ukiyo-e print artist. He is sometimes said to have been the same person as Nishimura Shigenobu, a contemporary ukiyo-e artist and student of Nishimura Shigenaga.
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Ishikawa Toyonobu (石川 豊信; 1711 – July 1, 1785) was a Japanese ukiyo-e print artist. He is sometimes said to have been the same person as Nishimura Shigenobu, a contemporary ukiyo-e artist and student of Nishimura Shigenaga about whom very little is known. A pupil of Nishimura Shigenaga, Toyonobu produced many monochrome "lacquer prints" (urushi-e) which reflected the influence of Okumura Masanobu as well. Many of these were yakusha-e (actor prints) and bijin-ga (images of beautiful women), including images of standing courtesans, whose faces conveyed an impassivity typical of the works of the Kaigetsudō school. Toyonobu also experimented with semi-nude forms, something his chief predecessors also did, but never succeeded in developing it into a trend or subgenre within ukiyo-e. Art historian Richard Lane points out that these images, depicting women with the top half of their kimono open and let down to reveal their chests, were intended as suggestive and erotic, and were not "glorification of the human form such as we find in Greek art". Later in his career, Toyonobu became one of the leading producers of color prints, chiefly benizuri-e ("rose prints"), but stopped producing ukiyo-e shortly after Suzuki Harunobu pioneered the full-color print (nishiki-e) in 1765. He had one notable pupil, Ishikawa Toyomasa, who is known chiefly for his depictions of children at play, and who may have been Toyonobu's son.
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Selected registered works by Ishikawa Toyonobu
Selected from 47 works by Ishikawa Toyonobu in the Collect24 Registry.
Ishikawa Toyonobu
Onoe Kikugoro (Right) as Soga no Goro; Ichimura Kamezo as Soga no Juro, 1744
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
38.1 × 28.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-263878
Ishikawa Toyonobu
Young Man Moving Toward the Right on High Geta and Opening His Umbrella, ca. 1745
Woodblock print (hand colored); ink and color on paper
64.8 × 15.2 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-236782
Ishikawa Toyonobu
Bandō Hikosaburō II Dressed as a Komuso and Carrying the Flute and Hat, 1761
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
39.1 × 16.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-236647
Ishikawa Toyonobu
Summer Willow in the Breeze, ca. 1748
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
31.1 × 14.3 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-235387
Ishikawa Toyonobu
Segawa Kikunojō II, 1758
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
40.3 × 17.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-227143
Ishikawa Toyonobu
The Actor Segawa Kichiji as a Daimyo's Young Son, and Sanogawa Ichimatsu as a Samurai Attendant, ca. 1750
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
43.8 × 31.1 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-263894
Ishikawa Toyonobu
The Actor Ishimura Kamezo Holding an Umbrella over the Actor Nakamura Kiyozo, as the Courtesan Matsuyama, 1748–1750
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
42.5 × 30.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-263871
Ishikawa Toyonobu
The Actor Arashi Tominosuke (Standing) in the Role of Hyasakihime, and Ichimura Kamezo as Kanto Koroku, probably January 1749
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
29.2 × 13.7 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-263874
Ishikawa Toyonobu
Drama of Areshi Soga, 1711–1785
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
30.8 × 14.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-244725
Ishikawa Toyonobu
The Actor Bandō Hikosaburo I in a Female Role, 1711–1785
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
39.7 × 17.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-235424
Ishikawa Toyonobu
The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I Standing, ca. 1743
Woodblock print (hand colored); ink and color on paper
61 × 24.8 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-229684
Ishikawa Toyonobu
Young Lady in Summer Attire, ca. 1748
Woodblock print (hand colored); ink and color on paper
50.2 × 22.9 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-229682
Museums and collections
Where works by Ishikawa Toyonobu are registered
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
27 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
16 works
- National Museum of Asian Art
Washington, D.C., United States
2 works
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
1 work
- Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
1 work
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