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Title

Rural Village

Artist

Qi Baishi (Ch'i Pai-shih)

Physical Description

The painting depicts three houses in a small village, surrounded by trees. There is a lake in the right-hand foreground of the painting. The artist signed his name with the seal of his pen name, Lao Pai (Pai the old man) on the upper left-hand corner.

Artist Life Dates

(1864 - 1957)

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1930

Accession Number

1949/1.193

Medium and Support

ink on paper

relevance

rank 13.18925

Primary Keywords

houses

lake

landscape

trees

Title

Eight Views of Ômi: #1 Evening Snow on Mount Hira

Artist

Andô Hiroshige

Physical Description

The snowy mass of Mount Hira rises behind a snow-covered village and clumps of bamboo by an inlet of Lake Biwa. The attendant poem in the upper left corner reads:

He who would see the beauty of the evening on the peaks of

Hira must behold it after the snows have fallen and before the

flowers are fully blown.

Artist Life Dates

1797-1858

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1834

Accession Number

1948/1.134

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper

relevance

rank 12.76812

Primary Keywords

abstraction

lake

mountains

snow

villages

woodblock prints