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Snowscape, from Album for Zhou Lianggong

Yun Xiang

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a black and white landscape painting with some red accents. The painting features a mountain range in the background, with large mountains and smaller hills. The mountains are painted in various shades of gray. In the foreground, there are many bare trees and large boulders covered in snow. A small waterfall cascades down the left side of the painting. The sky above the mountains is light gray and hazy. There are four red seals, one in each corner of the painting. There are also two columns of Chinese characters, one on the top left and one on the top right. The overall color palette of the painting is monochromatic, with shades of gray, black, and white, accented with red. The painting is titled "Snowscape, from Album for Zhou Lianggong by Yun Xiang".

Artwork Details

Date
datable to 1645–55
Medium
Double album leaf from a collective album of twelve paintings and facing pages of calligraphy; ink on paper
Culture
China
Dimensions
600 × 462 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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