Hot Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons Holiday Cards Holiday Cards

Send season’s greetings with art holiday cards from The Met.

The elegant composition of cranes among flowers on our holiday cards, originally presented in a seasonal progression from spring to winter, is a suggestion of longevity. It comes from a pair of lavish six-panel folding screens made in late 16th-century Japan during the Momoyama period (1573–1615), when images with exaggerated, high-relief details were popular. Vivid colors and strong ink outlines against a golden background are characteristic of Kano Motonobu (Japanese, 1476–1559), founder of the famous Kano school of painting, while the boldness is evocative of his grandson Kano Eitoku (Japanese, 1543–1590).

Please note that our holiday cards reproduce original works of art, some of which include visual artifacts…See More