Ando Utagawa Hiroshige, after, a woodblock print in colours, first part of the 20th Century.
12, Mishima, "Morning Mist" (Mishima, asa kiri) 三島 朝霧, ur sviten The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi) 東海道五十三次之内. Horiztonal ōban: I. 22 x 34,5 cm.
Discoloured. Paper-skinning. Not examined out of frame.
For the same motif, see:
Metropolitan Museum of Art: JP40
Art Institute of Chicago: 1932.170
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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