Returning Home through the Snow
Original title
Dai Jin 戴進
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 1992.132
- Credit
- Purchase, John M. Crawford Jr. Bequest, 1992
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1462. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- On darkened silk, a lone man hunched against the cold, arms drawn up to his face, hurries along a snowy bank beneath a grove of tall bare winter trees; a fence is half hidden among the trees, and snowy hills and water fade into a dim sky behind.
- Image
- 894 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009014
coldlibrary.com/g/009014 - Credit line
- Dai Jin, Returning Home through the Snow, c. 1455. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009014
Dai Jin was the leading painter of the Zhe school in the early Ming, and this is a late work. The silk has darkened with age, so the snow now reads as a soft gold-grey, and the eye needs a moment to adjust. The subject is simple and kind: someone almost home at the end of a cold day.
