{"product_id":"hiroshige-plum-garden-kameido-giclee-print","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige – Plum Garden at Kameido, 1857 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA plum trunk stands hard against the picture plane, so close that it is out of focus in the mind's eye, and the garden — visitors, fences, a hundred more trees in flower — is pushed far behind it. The sky is a flat band of red shading to white. Nothing recedes the way European pictures recede.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVincent van Gogh copied this sheet in oil in 1887 and framed his copy with invented Japanese characters. He was not quoting a masterpiece; it was a cheap print he had bought by the bundle. What he was after is exactly what stops you here: a foreground that refuses to get out of the way.\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 Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson. The red-to-white gradation in the sky is printed cleanly and still saturated, and the green of the ground is still green; on most surviving sheets it has turned to olive.\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: 34.9 × 23.9 cm \/ 13.7 × 9.4 in — 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\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — Enlarged, 1.8× original\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt original size the sheet is exactly the ōban format a buyer in Edo held. Enlarged, the blossoms separate from the trunk and the hand-wiped gradation in the sky breaks into its own streaks — a different picture, and a deliberate one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sheet is reproduced whole, including the title cartouche and the publisher's seals. 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\u003ePlum Garden at Kameido (Kameido Umeyashiki)\u003c\/em\u003e, from the series \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1857; colour woodblock print, ōban, 34.9 × 23.9 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson, Acc. No. 1965.1027.\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":65757020651869,"sku":"MUS-014-4050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Enlarged, 1.8× original","offer_id":65757022093661,"sku":"MUS-014-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-hiroshige-plum-garden-kameido-plate.jpg?v=1788193710","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/hiroshige-plum-garden-kameido-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}