# Geese in a Landscape

- By: anonymous
- Date: c. 1500 - c. 1600
- Medium: paper, ink, dye
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: height 10 cm x width 50 cm x depth 10.5 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of Herman Karel Westendorp, 1938)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-169--530a8ac12de5677c225a04efca9739f9)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/106d60c3c798bb3045231f4bceb1367b.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This ink painting of geese, together with the quail painting on the left, present two sides of Japanese animal painting. In contrast to the colourful, decorative style of Mitsuoki, here the geese are rendered in mono-chrome tints. The essence of ink painting is the potency of the line.