{"product_id":"hiroshige-peacock-and-peonies-giclee-print","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige – Peacock and Peonies, 1830s | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA peacock stands in a bank of peonies, its tail running up the right edge of the sheet and out of the picture. The format is \u003cem\u003eōtanzaku\u003c\/em\u003e — a tall, narrow panel of about 38 by 17.5 centimetres, the shape used for poem-slips and for pictures meant to hang in the narrow space between two posts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHiroshige is remembered for landscapes, but he made hundreds of bird-and-flower panels like this one, and they are the sheets in which his colour is boldest: a flat teal ground, the pink of the peonies laid on in two strengths, the eyes of the tail feathers printed in a blue that still reads as metal. The poem in the upper left belongs to the design, not to the catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhich impression.\u003c\/strong\u003e Woodblocks wear and pigments fade, so no two surviving sheets look alike. This one is the Art Institute of Chicago's, from the Clarence Buckingham Collection — the teal ground is even and unfaded and the peacock blue in the tail is intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks. It is not a woodblock print and is not sold as one — a woodblock print is pulled by hand from cut cherry blocks, and the good impressions are in museums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eOriginal: 38 × 17.5 cm \/ 15.0 × 6.9 in — ōtanzaku, Art Institute of Chicago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e40 × 50 cm \/ 15.7 × 19.7 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — original size, 1:1. Image 17.12 × 37.22 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — enlarged, 1.7× original. Image 28.52 × 62.00 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA narrow picture on a standard sheet.\u003c\/strong\u003e A panel of this shape has no standard frame of its own. The sheet sizes that would fit it tightly — 25 × 60 cm and the like — mean a made-to-measure frame and made-to-measure glass. So the picture is centred on our normal sheets instead, with the side borders wider than the top and bottom. That is how a narrow picture is matted anyway, and it means you can frame this one in a 16 × 20 or 20 × 28 inch frame bought off the shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheet is reproduced whole, including the poem and the signature. Nothing is cropped away but the museum's mount.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nUtagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), \u003cem\u003ePeacock and Peonies\u003c\/em\u003e, 1830s; colour woodblock print, ōtanzaku, 38 × 17.5 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection, Acc. No. 1943.633.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublic domain. The museum publishes its digitisation under CC0.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nGiclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"40 × 50 cm \/ 15.7 × 19.7 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65761862648157,"sku":"MUS-018-4050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Enlarged, 1.7× original","offer_id":65761862680925,"sku":"MUS-018-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/MUS-018_PeacockPeonies_plate.jpg?v=1788246145","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/hiroshige-peacock-and-peonies-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}