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Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake
Utagawa Hiroshige
From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, and the print Van Gogh copied in oil three years later.
- Artist
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 36 × 23.5 cm
- Location
- Multiple museum collections
History
What the record shows
Hiroshige rendered rain as fine crossed lines cut into the block, a technical feat of Edo printing.
The blue pigment is imported Prussian blue, stable in the dark but vulnerable to prolonged light.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Published by Uoya Eikichi, Edo, 1857
- 02Copied by Vincent van Gogh, 1887
- 03Impressions in major museum print rooms worldwide
