{"product_id":"toshusai-sharaku-the-actor-ichikawa-omezo-i-as-ippei-1794-giclee-print","title":"Tōshūsai Sharaku – The Actor Ichikawa Omezō I as Ippei, 1794 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe actor Ichikawa Omezō I on the Edo stage in the fifth month of 1794, as the footman Ippei: head thrust forward, eyes cut sharply to one side, mouth pulled down, one hand on the hilt of a sword half out of its scabbard. Sharaku set the half-length figure against a dark ground dusted with mica, so it seems to press out of a glinting night.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSharaku was active for less than a year, in 1794 and 1795, and his bust portraits of actors are counted among the high points of the woodblock portrait. This sheet passed through a Berlin auction in 1929 and came to Basel in 1942 with the bequest of the collector Carl Mettler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is\u003c\/strong\u003e — A giclée reproduction of a colour woodblock print with mica ground, printed on fine art paper. It is not an original print, and it is not sold as one. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e — On the 30 × 40 sheet the print is reproduced at its original size, 1:1, 23.8 × 33.5 cm. On the 50 × 70 sheet it is enlarged to 1.6×, 38.1 × 53.6 cm, at 319 dpi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e — 200 gsm matte fine art paper, pigment inks, a white margin on all four sides, unframed, shipped rolled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhere this comes from\u003c\/strong\u003e — Tōshūsai Sharaku (active 1794–95), \u003cem\u003eThe Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Omezō I as the Footman Ippei\u003c\/em\u003e, 1794, colour woodblock print with mica ground, published by Tsutaya Jūzaburō; Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett, bequest of Dr. Carl Mettler, 1942. The museum file, the measurements, and what we are allowed to sell: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/sheet-record-sharaku-omezo\"\u003ethe record for this sheet\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the same series\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-woodblock-prints\"\u003eJapanese Woodblock Prints\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFurther reading\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/notes\/true-to-scale-how-we-measure-a-work-before-we-print-it\"\u003eTrue to Scale: How We Measure a Work Before We Print It\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"30 × 40 cm \/ 11.8 × 15.7 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65964672155997,"sku":"MUS-075-3040","price":49.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"50 × 70 cm \/ 19.7 × 27.6 in — Enlarged, 1.6× original","offer_id":65964672188765,"sku":"MUS-075-5070","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/museartis-MUS-075-plate.jpg?v=1789846553","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/toshusai-sharaku-the-actor-ichikawa-omezo-i-as-ippei-1794-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}