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Mountain Retreat, leaf from Album for Zhou Lianggong

Shi Lin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Chinese landscape painting on a beige background. Black and white ink drawing depicting mountains and trees. The mountains are gray with darker shading to indicate depth. The landscape includes a small bridge over a river, a white house behind trees to the center. The mountains are covered by rounded masses of trees. The mountains are drawn in varying levels of detail. Small sections of Chinese writing in black ink are drawn across the top. There are four red stamps, one top left, one bottom left, and two bottom right. The composition is dense with subjects depicted.

Artwork Details

Date
datable to 1654–55
Medium
Leaf from a collective album of many leaves; ink and color on paper
Culture
China
Dimensions
600 × 458 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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