Katsushika Hokusai's "Chrysanthemums and Horsefly," a woodblock print made around 1833-34, was one of the many works by the Japanese master printer that influenced French Impressionist painter ...

He purchased his first Hokusai print in Amsterdam in 1871 ... that features four dead birds arranged on a tablecloth. “That’s so much more of a composed still life,” Olmsted said.