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White Crane Mountain, leaf from Album for Zhou Lianggong

Ye Xin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A landscape drawing of mountains with a winding dirt path leading to a building on the mountain. The drawing is in shades of gray with a beige background. There are trees on the mountains. A column of Chinese writing is on the right side of the image. Two seals are present: one in the upper middle, and one in the bottom-left corner, both are red.

Artwork details

Date:
datable to 1654–55
Medium:
Leaf from a collective album of many leaves; ink and color on paper
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
599 × 470 px
Museum record:
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