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Winter Rider

Accession Number
1973/2.76

Title
Winter Rider

Artist(s)
Ki Baitei

Object Creation Date
mid 18th century - early 19th century

Medium & Support
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper

Dimensions
52 1/8 in x 22 1/2 in (132.4 cm x 57.1 cm);2 3/4 in x 27 3/8 in x 2 3/4 in (7 cm x 69.5 cm x 7 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Subject matter
Winter Rider employs a scheme that occurs again and again in Baitei's oeuvre: a horseman crossing a bridge in the mountains behind several foreground trees. Baitei appears to associate this theme with the late autumn or winter as seen in various surviving versions.

Physical Description
The "painting richly evokes a darkly overcast day with a rider wearing a straw raincoat accompanied by a man on foot carrying luggage. The horse seems delighted as its hooves sink  into the thick snow on the path. Large daubs of white pigment are used to represent the falling snow called botan yuki"

Adams, Celeste, and Paul Berry. Heart, Mountains, and Human Ways: Japanese Landscape and Figure Painting: a Loan Exhibition from the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Museum of Fine Arts, 1983.
 

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Primary Object Type
hanging scroll

Collection Area
Asian

Rights
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Japan
hanging scroll
horses
houses
snow
trails
travelers
trees
water
winter

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