{"product_id":"hiroshige-sudden-shower-shin-ohashi-bridge-giclee-print","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige – Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, 1857 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eRain is drawn as rain: thousands of straight black lines cut across the sheet at two slightly different angles, printed from two blocks so the downpour crosses itself. Below it people run over a wooden bridge with mats and umbrellas over their heads, and a raft drifts on grey water. Nobody looks up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHiroshige made it in 1857, the year before he died, for \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo\u003c\/em\u003e. Thirty-odd years later Vincent van Gogh copied it in oil, line for line, and added a red border of invented Japanese characters. He was not quoting a famous picture — at the time it was a cheap sheet from a print shop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction of the Metropolitan Museum's impression, 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: 36.5 × 24.3 cm \/ 14.4 × 9.6 in — Metropolitan Museum of Art\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, 1.7× original\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt original size the sheet is exactly the ōban format a buyer in Edo held. Enlarged, the rain lines separate into two distinct falls and the woodgrain of the block comes up through the sky — 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\u003eSudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake (Ōhashi Atake no yūdachi)\u003c\/em\u003e, from the series \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)\u003c\/em\u003e, 1857; woodblock print, ink and colour on paper, 36.5 × 24.3 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918, Acc. No. JP644.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublic domain. The Museum publishes its digitisation under Open Access (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":65756457369949,"sku":"MUS-011-4050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Enlarged, 1.7× original","offer_id":65756458549597,"sku":"MUS-011-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-hiroshige-sudden-shower-plate-v2.jpg?v=1788190974","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/hiroshige-sudden-shower-shin-ohashi-bridge-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}