art_history_animalia, #FrogFriday fun fact:
#DYK #VanGogh copied #frogs from one of his #JapaneseArt prints to decorate the border of his copy of another Japanese print?
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- Vincent van Gogh
Courtesan (after Eisen)
Paris, 1887
oil on cotton, 100.7x60.7cm- Utagawa Yoshimaru
New Print of Insects & Small Creatures
Tokyo, 1883
colour woodcut on Japan paper, 37x25cm
Van Gogh Museum collection:
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0116V1962
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/japanese-prints/collection/n0476V1962ucloseup of the two frogs in the border of his painting
New Print of Insects and Small Creatures Tokyo, ninth month 1883, Utagawa Yoshimaru (1844 - 1907) colour woodcut on Japan paper, 37 cm x 25 cm (“toy print”) From Van Gogh’s personal collection. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
New Print of Insects and Small Creatures Tokyo, ninth month 1883, Utagawa Yoshimaru (1844 - 1907) colour woodcut on Japan paper, 37 cm x 25 cm (“toy print”) From Van Gogh’s personal collection. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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