Snowy Mountain Landscape Scroll Painting

Description

Kano school painting depicted winter landscape with snow. Painted with ink and light pigments on paper. It is attributed to Kano(Fujiwara) Munenobu who was a Kano school painter who was active in the early Edo period in Japan.

The Kano school is a group of painters who produced fusuma (sliding doors) and wall paintings as official painters for the shogunate at their castles and houses. It reigned at the center of the art world for about 400 years from the Muromachi (1338-1573) to the Edo period(1603-1868). Many of the works of the Kano school are dynamic and formal and colored with gold leaf.

Some light marks, traces of restoration of damage are present on the painting itself, otherwise the painting is in fine condition for the age. The scroll mounting is in very good condition. It is accompanied by a paulownia wood storage box.

Painting: W19 7/8” x H50 3/8” (W50.5cm x H128cm)
Scroll: W25 5/8"x H81 1/2” (W65cm x H207cm)