Autumn River in the Rain and Clouds

About this artwork

Thick mist and clouds obscure the high, upper slopes of the mountains, providing a wet, autumnal mood for this imaginary riverscape with its mixture of isolated peasant and scholar-recluse inhabitants. At right, a common fisherman huddles in his little boat among the reeds. On the far shore, a path leads from a hamlet of simple, well-built houses to a stone bridge over a stream. Where the stream emerges from a distant valley, a wood gatherer approaches on the narrow trail carrying two bundles of...