Mallard Ducks Swimming

Seven mallard ducks with green-black heads and mottled brown bodies swim across a still lake, one standing on a rock at the shoreline while the others cluster in the water near tall grasses and a dark, moss-tinged rock outcrop in the left foreground. A small V of birds flies over distant grey hills in the pale, muted sky, and the far shore is rendered as a soft band of grasses along the waterline. Muted greys, browns, and dusty greens dominate the palette, evoking a quiet, overcast day; this is Ohara Koson's 1915 color woodblock print "Mallard Ducks Swimming."