[reserved]+Rest in the mountains, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japan, 1841-44.

A ukiyo-e woodcut depicting resting men, seated on benches, enjoying tea, a pipe and a mountain view. 

Japan, Edo period, 1841-44.

Title: Sakanoshita: Distant View of Fudesute Mountain (Sakanoshita, Fudesuteyama chôbô), from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road (Tôkaidô gojûsan tsugi no uchi), also known as the Gyôsho Tôkaidô

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was a famous painter and ukiyo-e artist. Initially he created portraits, depicting mainly actors and women, but in later years he became famous for his landscapes and nature paintings. He made thousands of compositions depicting flowers and birds, but also Edo, cities and roads. Among the most famous are, for example, the series One Hundred Famous Places in Edo (accepted as a unique achievement of the ukiyo-e school) and Fifty-three Stations on the Tōkaidō Road. His work inspired, among others, Vincent van Gogh, James McNeill Whistler, Paul Cézanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin and other Impressionist artists. An admirer of Hiroshige's work was Wisława Szymborska, who dedicated a poem to him from her volume People on the Bridge.

Size: 32.7 x 20.8 cm.

Medium state of preservation, visible discolouration, damage.

Information:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/236981