Original woodblockrprint. Japan,

Gotenyama yûkyô 御殿山遊興 - „Amusements at Goten-yama". Original colour woodblock print from the series Kôto meisho 江都名所 - „Famous Places in Edo". Signature: Hiroshige ga. Seal: Utagawa. Publisher: Sanoya Kihei. Seal of censor: Kiwame. Edition: ca. 1832/34. Good condition. About the artist: Utagawa Hiroshige's (1797-1858) success and popularity are legendary. His landscapes are magnificent, their coloring masterfully tinged, and the colors so atmospheric that one experiences first-hand nature's constant transformations, its fluctuations from snow to rain to storm, from the dark of night to the evening twilight. He began his career as a landscape painter in 1830 with his first series "Famous Places of the Eastern Capital", establishing his fame three years later with "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaido". New woodblock print series continued to follow, including "Famous Places of Kyōto", "Eight Views of Lake Biwa", "Famous Places of Naniwa", "Eight Views of Kanazawa", "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji", "Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces" or the "Sixty-nine Stations of Kiso Kaidō", multiplying his artistic renown, which soon surpased even that of the great Hokusai. With such a bountiful cornucopia of splendid images, which spread throughout the world, it is not surprising that the dawn of Japanese woodblock of Japanese woodblock prints in Europe and America is, in a large sense, due to Hiroshige.

Condition report: Good condition

OBAN YOKO-E 24,8 x 36,6 CM

From an Austrian collection

Expertise: Wolfmar Zacken