# Distant mountains beyond a river

- By: Formerly attributed to Jing Hao (傳)荊浩 (ca. 870-ca.935)
- Date: 16th century
- Medium: Ink and color on silk
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 23.1 x 22.6 cm (9 1/8 x 8 7/8 in)
- Culture: Chinese
- Credit line: Collection of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer. Gift of Elizabeth Meyer Lorentz in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Freer Gallery of Art
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1998.3/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b158ca36b2a486db111efe2c77c1670e.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Simply drawn buildings on the riverbank in the lower left corner of the composition are dwarfed by large windblown trees growing from a foreground promontory. A narrow bridge connects the elements in the lower left with a small tip of land at the lower right and, compositionally, leads the viewer into the distance, which is dominated by light blue mountain peaks. The asymmetrical composition is based on traditions developed during the Southern Song period and usually associated with Ma Yuan (active 1189-1224) and Xia Gui (active 1194-1224).