Mount Atago in Shiba
Utagawa Hiroshige (Tokio 1797 - Tokio 1858)
Lot-No. 378
Late Edo Period (1603-1868), woodblock print, 22 x 34,5 cm (oban tate-e), up. le. entitled 'Shiba atago san' from the series 'Touto meisho' (Famous views of the eastern capital) and sign. 'Hiroshige ga'. Small traces of age. - Japanese artist, since 1811 pupil of Utagawa Toyohiro, strong influence on western impressionists, who showed his prints at the world fair in Paris 1855, van Gogh bought some of his prints. - Mus.: London, New York, Amsterdam a.o. - Lit.: G. Fahr-Becker 'Japanische Farbholzschnitte' a.o.
Utagawa Hiroshige: Mount Atago in Shiba
Utagawa Hiroshige (Tokio 1797 - Tokio 1858)
Mount Atago in Shiba
Lot-No. 378
Late Edo Period (1603-1868), woodblock print, 22 x 34,5 cm (oban tate-e), up. le. entitled 'Shiba atago san' from the series 'Touto meisho' (Famous views of the eastern capital) and sign. 'Hiroshige ga'. Small traces of age. - Japanese artist, since 1811 pupil of Utagawa Toyohiro, strong influence on western impressionists, who showed his prints at the world fair in Paris 1855, van Gogh bought some of his prints. - Mus.: London, New York, Amsterdam a.o. - Lit.: G. Fahr-Becker 'Japanische Farbholzschnitte' a.o.