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Landscape

Zhao Yuan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Landscape by Zhao Yuan, a horizontal Asian-style ink painting on beige paper, depicting a serene scene with a house nestled among trees and rocks on the right side, surrounded by large, steep cliffs and distant mountains on the left. The composition includes dense foliage and trees in the foreground, with a body of water on the left leading to the base of the cliffs. The artwork features intricate black ink line work and is adorned with six red seals on the left side and one circular red seal on the top right corner, with additional vertical black calligraphy on the far left.

Artwork details

Date:
late 14th century
Medium:
Handscroll; ink on paper
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
600 × 375 px
Museum record:
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