Bridge in Snow
Original title
Unidentified artist 佚名
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 13.100.116
- Credit
- John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
- Rights
Song dynasty painting of the late 10th century; the painter is unrecorded. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A round fan painting on dark silk, set in a pale patterned mount. A rocky bank with a leaning tree stands at the left; snow lies on low roofs, rocks and a small wooden bridge along the shore, and a wide, still river stretches to faint hills on the far side.
- Image
- 1600 × 1486
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009016
coldlibrary.com/g/009016 - Credit line
- Unidentified artist, Bridge in Snow, late 10th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009016
One of the oldest paintings on this wall, made more than a thousand years ago by a painter whose name did not survive. The colours have deepened, but the composition is still clear: a shore, a bridge, a few houses and a great deal of quiet water. A library holds many works like this, where the work outlived the name.
