Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797-1858)

Date

1857

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Figures dash across a long wooden bridge while ruled black lines of rain fall from a dark band of cloud. The deep blue river and orange-brown planks are the same scene Van Gogh later copied in oils.

• Museum-sourced, public domain (CC0)
• Printed and shipped in the US
• Museum record at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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