1832
ink
paper
From the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
近江八景之内 比良暮雪|Evening Snow on Mount Hira is a 1832 ink by Utagawa Hiroshige, a Romanticism work, depicting Boat, held at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This print shows a quiet village nestled between a dark mountain and a calm body of water. The mountain’s jagged peaks rise sharply, while small houses cluster near the shore. Snow dusts the rooftops and hills, and the sky is a deep, moody blue-gray. The artist used fine lines to build up shadows on the mountain, giving it a rough, textured look. This trick makes the snow-covered slopes pop against the flat village below. Want to see how this technique works up close? Try cross-hatching.
Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重) or Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重), born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
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