One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Van Gogh copied two sheets in oil, the plum garden and the sudden shower on the bridge
- Author
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Style
- Ukiyo-e — Pictures of the floating world: actors, beauties and views of Edo in mass-printed colour woodblocks
- Century
- 19th century
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Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1865–1869 War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy · Realism · Yasnaya Polyana
- 1872 Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet · Impressionism · Le Havre
- c. 1831 The Great Wave off Kanagawa — Katsushika Hokusai · Ukiyo-e · Edo (Tokyo)
- 1830 Liberty Leading the People — Eugène Delacroix · Romanticism · Paris
- 1856 Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert · Realism · Croisset, near Rouen
- 1857 The Gleaners — Jean-François Millet · Realism · Barbizon
- 1862 Les Misérables — Victor Hugo · Romanticism · Guernsey, Hauteville House
- 1849–1850 A Burial at Ornans — Gustave Courbet · Realism · Ornans
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