Woman Walking in the Snow
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 36.100.22
- Credit
- The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1858. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A painted hanging scroll in its brocade mounting. A woman in a grey kimono and black hood walks alone through snow, holding a large oiled-paper umbrella against the wind; a snow-covered pine branch reaches in from the upper right.
- Image
- 884 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009005
coldlibrary.com/g/009005 - Credit line
- Utagawa Hiroshige, Woman Walking in the Snow, 1840s–early 1850s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009005
Hiroshige is known for prints, but he also painted directly on silk, and this scroll is his own brushwork rather than the work of carvers and printers. The figure is small against a large empty ground, and the snow is suggested more than shown. I chose it for the walk itself: one person going on through the weather, unhurried.
