{"product_id":"hiroshige-wild-duck-in-snow-giclee-print","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige – Wild Duck in Snow, 1830s | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wild duck swims along a snow-covered bank. Above it the reeds bend under their own load of snow; below, the water is a deep, even blue with white flakes falling across it. The bird is the only warm thing in the picture — buff and brown against the cold — and it is drawn with the economy of someone who had watched ducks for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe format is \u003cem\u003eōtanzaku\u003c\/em\u003e, a tall narrow panel of about 38 by 17 centimetres, the shape used for poem-slips and for pictures hung in the narrow space between two posts. The snow is not painted on: it is the bare paper, left unprinted, with the blue laid around it.\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 blue of the water is still deep and evenly graded, and the reeds have kept their fine line.\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: 38.2 × 17 cm \/ 15.0 × 6.7 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 16.63 × 37.35 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — enlarged, 1.7× original. Image 27.61 × 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 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\u003eA Wild Duck Swimming by a Snow-covered Bank beneath Snow-laden Reeds\u003c\/em\u003e, 1830s; colour woodblock print, ōtanzaku, 38.2 × 17 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection, Acc. No. 1952.338.\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":65762950316381,"sku":"MUS-021-4050","price":59.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Enlarged, 1.7× original","offer_id":65762950349149,"sku":"MUS-021-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/MUS-021_WildDuckSnow_plate.jpg?v=1788250467","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/hiroshige-wild-duck-in-snow-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}