River landscape: ferry-boat and Mount Fuji
1842
- Medium
- Ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 84.9 × 42.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-124151
Hokusai was eighty-three years old when he painted this landscape of Mount Fuji, which was an prominent subject of his prints and paintings in his later years. The composition follows a formula derived from Chinese landscape painting in which distant elements are placed higher in the composition. Here, Mount Fuji is at the highest, most distant point, but the focal scene of human activity—a boat …
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 1842 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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