Ando Hiroshige was a painter of landscape and an important ukiyoe print-maker.
His work was admired and collected by Whistler. In Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl y052, the model, Joanna Hiffernan, holds a woodcut fan, The Banks of the Sumida River from the set of Famous Places in the Eastern Capital, dating from 1857.
In Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen y060, several prints by Hiroshige, including his 1855 colour woodcut Saijo, Iyo Province from Views of Famous Places in the 60-odd Provinces, are being admired by the model.
His prints inspired such paintings as Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge y140, which Theodore Child compared to Hiroshige's woodcut of a fête on a river at night, with fireworks, Moonlight at Ryogoko of 1856/1857. Other examples of compositions dominated by the curve of a bridge are, for example, Clear Morning after a Snowfall at Nihonbashu Bridge (Nihonbashu yukibare no asa) from the Hundred Views of Famous Places of Edo, and Plates 39 and 53 from the Fifty-three Views of the Tokaido.
The Grove Dictionary of Art Online, ed. L. Macy. MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003 .