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Rocky Landscape

Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a landscape painting. The painting features a mountain range with many tall, jagged peaks. The mountains are rendered in shades of dark brown to light brown. Trees are scattered on the mountains and in the foreground. The sky above the mountains is filled with clouds. The painting has a gold border around the edges. The color palette is primarily shades of brown, with no other colors visible. The overall style appears to be traditional Asian art. The artist's signature appears vertically on the left. The image is a landscape.

Artwork details

Date:
ca. 1887
Medium:
Album leaf; ink and color on silk
Culture:
Japan
Dimensions:
474 × 624 px
Museum record:
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