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ID: 700008760
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008760
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
L'arc de la vague au large de Kanagawa (color woodcut; Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Éditeur: Eijudô (Nishimuraya...; 1831?; Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris, Île-de-France, France); Notice n° : FRBNF15780765; )
Titles:
L'arc de la vague au large de Kanagawa (preferred,C,U,RP,French-P,U,U)
La vague (C,U,PO,French,U,U)
Sous la grande vague au large de la côte à Kanagawa (C,U,French,U,U)
Sous la grande vague au large de Kanagawa (C,U,French,U,U)
神奈川沖浪裏 (C,U,Japanese,U,U)
Kanagawa-oki namiura (C,U,Japanese (transliterated),U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
color woodcut (print) [300041412] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, relief prints, woodcuts (prints))

Classifications:
prints (preferred)
Asian art

Creation Date: 1831?

Creator Display:
Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Éditeur: Eijudô (Nishimuraya Yohachi) [preferred,VP]
printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese printmaker, painter, 1760-1849) [500060426]
publishers Nishimura Eijudo (Japanese publishing house, 18th-19th centuries) [500312961]
Locations:
Current: Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris, Île-de-France, France) [500309981] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: Notice n° : FRBNF15780765
Other: Publication: Tōkyō [7004472] Tōkyō (prefecture), Japan (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: gravure sur bois polychrome: Technique de l'image : estampe. - gravure sur bois. - couleurs (impression); Format de papier: "ōban yokoe"
yoko-e [300403995]
.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Attributes and Properties (hierarchy name), <attributes and properties by specific type>, form attributes, size/dimensions, <size/dimensions by specific type>, <size for prints>)
colored ink [300126356]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, ink, <ink by property>)
color (pigment) [300264870]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>)
paper (fiber product) [300014109]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)
woodcut (process) [300053296]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, relief printing processes)
nishiki-e [300041507]
.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, relief prints, woodcuts (prints), color woodcuts (prints))
ōban (print size) [300403993]
.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Attributes and Properties (hierarchy name), <attributes and properties by specific type>, form attributes, size/dimensions, <size/dimensions by specific type>, <size for prints>)

Dimensions: 26,3 x 38,8 cm (im.); Format de papier: "ōban yokoe"
Cultures:
Japanese (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:
Tenpō [300390516] (preferred,N/A)
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, Asian, East Asian, Japanese (culture or style), Early Modern Japanese, Edo (Japanese period), Late Edo)

General Subject:
seascapes (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:
Fuji, Mount [1107685]
.....(Honshu (island), Japan (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)
Kanagawa [1004811]
.....(Yokohama (inhabited place), Kanagawa Prefecture (prefecture), Japan (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)
wave (natural event) [300343616]
.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), natural events) (AAT)
boat [300178749]
.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name), vehicles (transportation), watercraft, <watercraft by general type>) (AAT)
fishermen (people) [300025608]
.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>) (AAT)

Outside Iconography:
Code: 25H2311 Term: wave
.....Source: Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)
Code: 25H23124 Term: tidal wave
.....Source: Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)
Code: sh 85052253 Term: Fuji, Mount (Japan)
.....Source: Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)

Copyright: © Bibliothèque nationale de France
Provenance: Ancien détenteur: Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), Henri Rivière (1864-1951)
Inscriptions: Dans la partie supérieure, à gauche, titre de la série, suivi du titre de l'estampe dans un cartouche rectangulaire
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
..... Conceptual Works
.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works
............... Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: First Series
.................... Great Wave off Kanagawa
Additional Notes:
French ..... Première estampe de la série des "Trente-six vues du mont Fuji"; Série de 46 estampes, 36 planches à contour bleu et 10 planches supplémentaires à contour noir. Dans cette vue, Hokusai utilise avec habileté les techniques européennes pour rendre l'illusion spatiale ; il introduit les principes de la perspective occidentale. Ainsi, sa fameuse Vague apparaît en gros plan, alors que le volcan figuré minuscule à l'horizon est largement subordonné à la scène, où des pêcheurs risquent de sombrer dans une mer déchaînée. Le dynamisme de la composition permet de mettre en évidence la fragilité, voire l'insignifiance, de la vie humaine face à la puissance destructrice la nature. Hokusai fixe ici moment éphémère, soit un phénomène naturel très bref. Cette représentation d'un instantané, d'une impression éphémère est caractéristique de l'ukiyo-e, « images d'un monde éphémèreet flottant ». Cette estampe donne même une vision littérale de ce terme et en constitue une métaphore : Hokusai saisit l'instant même où la vague gigantesque, écumante, menace de déferler sur les embarcations et d'engloutir les vulnérables pêcheurs, dont l'existence éphémère est soumise au bon vouloir de la nature.
Sources and Contributors:
L'arc de la vague au large de Kanagawa........ [VP]
........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
La vague........ [VP]
........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
Sous la grande vague au large de la côte à Kanagawa........ [VP]
........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
Sous la grande vague au large de Kanagawa........ [VP]
........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
神奈川沖浪裏........ [VP]
........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
Kanagawa-oki namiura........ [VP]
........ Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
Subject: ....... [VP]
....................... Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-) http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb157807657
Note:
French ..... [VP]
..... Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) [online] (2000-)
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