Name: Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake
Brand: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858)
Price: 19000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

A PRIVATE COLLECTION OF PRINTS FROM THE SERIES 100 VIEWS OF FAMOUS PLACES OF EDO

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858)
Ohashi Atake no yudachi [Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake], from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei [One Hundred Views of Famous Places of Edo]

Woodblock print, signed Hiroshige ga, published by Uoya Eikichi, 9th month 1857
Vertical oban (36.7 x 24.5cm.)

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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 The Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige), which is now in the van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

For another impression in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, see www.mfa.org accession number 34.292 and for another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, go to http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/37386

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