Ando Utagawa Hiroshige, presumably after, woodblock print in colours.
"View of Matsuchiyama (Matsuchiyama no zu) 真乳山之図". From the series "Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tōto meisho) 東都名所".
Censor seal: "Tanaka".
Sheet size 25.5 x 38 cm.
Slitage. Veck. Smärre revor.
Ando Hiroshige is one of the most renowned a Japanese painters born in Edo. He began his artistic career as an apprentice to Utagawa Toyohiro. After completing his training, Hiroshige took his teacher's name and started signing his works Utagawa Hiroshige. Hiroshige painted motifs from everyday life, and it is said that he decided to become an artist after seeing the works of the contemporary artist Hokusai. Hiroshige transformed ordinary landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes. He is particularly known for his beautiful landscape images in the woodblock printing technique and has painted portraits of young women and actors. His masterpiece is considered to be the work “Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.”
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