Unfinished Antique Japanese woodblock print, probably Utagawa Kunisada, A beautiful woman in a green house, Edo, Ukiyo-e, Bijin-ga, Woodcut

Authentic artwork
Original woodblock print
Full size

青楼美人合 玉屋内薄雲
A beautiful woman in a green house, a thin cloud in a jade house.
Probably Utagawa Kunisada / Toyokuni III (1786 - 1865)

Age: Antique
Woodblock print
Ukiyo-e, Bijin-ga

Unique artwork, for some reason the last color, a shade of red, was not printed.

Utagawa Kunisada was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.

The Utagawa school (歌川派) was one of the main schools of ukiyo-e, founded by Utagawa Toyoharu. It was the largest ukiyo-e school of its period. The main styles were bijin-ga (beautiful women) and ukiyo-e. His pupil, Toyokuni I, took over after Toyoharu's death and led the group to become the most famous and powerful woodblock print school for the remainder of the 19th century.

Hiroshige, Kunisada, Kuniyoshi and Yoshitoshi were Utagawa students. The school became so successful and well known that today more than half of all surviving ukiyo-e prints are from it.

During his time in Paris, Vincent van Gogh was an avid collector of ukiyo-e, amassing with his brother a collection of several hundred prints purchased in the gallery of S. Bing. This collection provided works from The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido, and Van Gogh incorporated stylistic elements from his collection into his own work, such as bright colors, natural details, and unconventional perspectives. In h is personal correspondence, he stated, "all of my work is founded on Japanese art", and described the Impressionists as "the Japanese of France".

Artworks from the series "A beautiful woman in a green house" are on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

The Japanese term Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as picture of the floating world.
Bijinga (美人画) is a portrait of a beautiful woman.

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