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Summer Landscape
Also titled Zomerlandschap
Suzuki Shonen (1848–1918)
1908
- Medium
- paper, wood (plant material), ink, dye, goudbrokaat
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 10.6 cm x width 120.5 cm x depth 11 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Oranda-Jin, 2008)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
The calligraphic inscription describes the moment depicted in the painting: a mountain landscape in the summer rain, with the hills still clearly visible. The warm, damp countryside is monumentally set up, with rich shades of ink lending depth to the composition.
