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Landscape

Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fan-shaped painting on brown paper, depicting a landscape with mountains, trees, and rocky terrain. The mountains are rendered in shades of gray and brown, with black outlines. Trees are scattered throughout, also in black. The painting features Chinese calligraphy along the top edge and two red seals, one in the bottom-right corner and a small red mark in the bottom-left corner. The background of the image is beige. The painting is attributed to Shitao (Zhu Ruoji).

Artwork details

Date:
dated 1699
Medium:
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on gold-flecked paper
Culture:
China
Dimensions:
600 × 290 px
Museum record:
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