Second half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi River

Second half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi River

Unidentified artist

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is the second half of a handscroll that was separated into two pieces. The work follows the style of the thirteenth-century painter Xia Gui, whose sharp, angular brushwork and evocative, mist-shrouded scenes were much admired in the fifteenth century, especially at the Ming-dynasty court. The composition is based in part on Xia’s Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains (National Palace Museum, Taiwan). The survival of other oversize copies of Pure and Remote View from this period attests to the painting’s popularity among fifteenth-century patrons.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Second half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi RiverSecond half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi RiverSecond half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi RiverSecond half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi RiverSecond half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi River

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