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Utagawa Hiroshige Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Utagawa Hiroshige Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Utagawa Hiroshige (, also US: ; Japanese: 歌川 広重 [ɯtaɡawa çiɾoꜜɕiɡe]), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.  The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868).  The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige's prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques. For scholars and collectors, Hiroshige's death marked the beginning of a rapid decline in the ukiyo-e genre, especially in the face of the westernization that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Hiroshige's work came to have a marked influence on western European painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in Japonism. Western European artists, such as Manet and Monet, collected and closely studied Hiroshige's compositions. Vincent van Gogh even went so far as to paint copies of two of Hiroshige's prints from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: Plum Park in Kameido and Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi bridge and Atake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshige

Mitsukei Tenryugawa

Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo) / The Met

   title: Mitsukei Tenryugawa
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1914

Haneda Rakugan

Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo) / The Met

   title: Haneda Rakugan
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1914

Ōi Station

Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo) / The Met

   title: Ōi Station
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1914

Evening Cherries on Gotem Yama

Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo) / The Met

   title: Evening Cherries on Gotem Yama
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1914

Yase no Sato

Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo) / The Met

   title: Yase no Sato
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1914

Otomo Kihan

Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo) / The Met

   title: Otomo Kihan
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1914

Yodogawa

Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797–1858 Tokyo (Edo) / The Met

   title: Yodogawa
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1914

Cherry Blossoms at Arashiyama, from the series Famous Places of Kyōto

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese: 奥村 政信; 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okumura_Masanobu Yaoya O Shichi Standing, Holding a Love Letter and a Battledo
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