Lot no. 61
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japan, 1797-1858)
Print, oban tate-e, from the series Meisho Edo hyakkei (名所江戸百景), The Hundred Views of Edo, plate 58: Ōhashi Atake no yūdachi (大はしあたけの夕立), Sudden rain on the Ohashi and Atake bridge. Signed Hiroshige ga. Publisher Uoya Eikichi. Dated the 9th month of the year of the snake, 1857. Traces of mica (Freckles, restoration).
Dim. 36,8 x 25,3 cm
Vincent van Gogh, an admirer of Japanese prints, painted his own version of Hiroshige's famous print, now in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Reference:
A similar print in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 46.1399
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Pictures credits: Contact organization
Asian Art
About the sale06/12/2025
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René Scholten's personal collection, The Netherlands (Part II) - Early Japanese prints & Shin-Hanga
75007 Paris - France