Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake (Ohashi Atake no yudachi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)
Woodblock print, signed Hiroshige ga, published by Uoya Eikichi, 9th month 1857
Vertical oban (36.2 x 24.2 cm.)

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One of Hiroshige's most iconic prints, figures crossing the Ohashi Bridge are taken by surprise by a sudden downpour of rain. Only thirty years after its publication, an impression made its way into the collection of Vincent van Gogh, inspiring him to paint his 1887 oil and canvas version Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige), 1887, which is now in the van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

For another impression in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession number 34.292, go to:
https://www.mfa.org/collections/search
And for another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number JP3174, go to:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection