Description
A unique landscape painting in the existing body of Chen Hongshou’s art, this painting reveals his involvement with the practice of fang (imitation) to achieve creative transformation. Chen acquired the tradition stemming from Dong Yuan of the Five Dynasties, with which he sought an artistic individuality that lends his work an idiosyncratic vision and extraordinary power.
Provenance
Gao Shiqi 高士奇 [1644–1703]; Guan Mianjun 關冕鈞 [1870–1933]; (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?–1966); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1966–)
Accession Number
1966.366
Medium
hanging scroll; ink on silk
Dimensions
Painting: 118 x 53 cm (46 7/16 x 20 7/8 in.); Overall: 232.4 x 69.7 cm (91 1/2 x 27 7/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund
