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Snowy Landscape

Sakaki Hyakusen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Snowy Landscape by Sakaki Hyakusen. A vertical rectangular painting on a beige background with a gold patterned border. The painting depicts a mountain landscape with snow-covered mountains, trees, and a body of water. The mountains are drawn in shades of gray and white. Trees are drawn in black and white, with some having bare branches and others having leaves. A small building is visible on the lower center of the painting. The gold border has a repeating pattern of small flowers or leaves. The overall color palette is muted, with shades of beige, gray, white, and black. The painting style is traditional Japanese. The artwork is long and narrow.

Artwork details

Date:
1744
Medium:
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
468 × 624 px
Museum record:
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