Description
This album leaf is one of few surviving paintings by Luo Zichuan. During the Yuan dynasty, the Luo family of painters in Jiangxi province, in Southern China, had a network of patrons extending their reputation all the way to the capital city of Beijing.
The small, rounded figures crossing the bridge on the right are gentlemen enjoying a ramble, rather than ascetics or travelers. The composition is dominated in the center foreground by “crab-claw” trees with knotty trunks and twisting branches. Their robust forms show Luo’s connection to the earlier master, Guo Xi (about 1020–about 1090).
The small, rounded figures crossing the bridge on the right are gentlemen enjoying a ramble, rather than ascetics or travelers. The composition is dominated in the center foreground by “crab-claw” trees with knotty trunks and twisting branches. Their robust forms show Luo’s connection to the earlier master, Guo Xi (about 1020–about 1090).
Provenance
Duan Fang 端方 [1861–1911]; Dr. J. C. [John Calvin] Ferguson [福開森, 1866–1945]; H. W. [Henry Watson] Kent [1866–1948] as agent for the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust; John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?–1915); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1915–)
Accession Number
1915.536
Medium
Album leaf; ink on silk
Dimensions
Painting only: 24.5 x 25.2 cm (9 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
