The Met - Arc of the Snow Perch - 54.25" x 41.25" - Beige

This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection. This piece arrives framed and ready to hang. On this fan-shaped painting by Kano Sōshū, a bird perches on the leafless branch of an old tree above a stream next to a tangle of Chinese lantern plants, reeds, and a plantain, its broad leaves laden with snow. With the exception of the ink lines of the flowing stream and a small number of the leaves of the Chinese lantern, most of the motifs are painted on top of a layer of shell-white pigment (gofun) applied directly to the paper of the fan. The production of painted folding fans constituted a significant part of the Kano School’s output in the 16th century.