{"product_id":"utagawa-hiroshige-sudden-shower-over-shin-ohashi-bridge-and-atake-1857-framed-giclee-print","title":"Utagawa Hiroshige – Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, 1857 | Framed 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt original size the sheet is exactly the ōban format a buyer in Edo held.\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 frame\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nGiclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks, white border. Slim black aluminium frame, glazed with clear plexiglass instead of glass, so it travels safely. Print and frame ship together in one package and are assembled on arrival. Part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hotel-collection\"\u003eHotel Collection\u003c\/a\u003e — volume pricing from ten pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"40 × 50 cm \/ 15.7 × 19.7 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65970679841117,"sku":"9d1a9aab-4324-4121-ade8-a2aeb8dbdd14","price":139.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/f748cdde-1df8-4d77-b27f-af86e04cd15a.webp?v=1789909813","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/utagawa-hiroshige-sudden-shower-over-shin-ohashi-bridge-and-atake-1857-framed-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}