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Scenic Views of Rivers and Mountains in the Style of Huang Gongwang
Scenic Views of Rivers and Mountains in the Style of Huang Gongwang

Scenic Views of Rivers and Mountains in the Style of Huang Gongwang

Original Language Title仿黃公望江山聖覽圖
Attributed to Wang Hui (傳)王翬 (Chinese, 1632 - 1717)
DateQing dynasty (1644-1911)
MediumHandscroll; ink on paper
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 × 216 1/4 inches (29.21 × 549.28 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number46-43
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Exhibition History

Chinese Paintings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October-December 1948.

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 11 – March 29, 1981, no. 247.

Flowers to Frost: Four Seasons in East Asian Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, January, 5 – July 17, 2016.

Gallery Label
Time and space appear frozen in this mountain and river scene. The season is unclear. It may be an agreeable day in spring, summer or autumn, as a traveler strolls along the riverbank and fishermen drift on boats. Rather than creating literal depictions of nature, Wang Hui and his followers often drew from traditional styles and art historical precedents. Here the painter’s brushwork references Chinese painter Huang Gongwang (1269–1354).
Provenance

Luo Zhenyu;

Teijiro Yamamoto;

Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005);

Purchased from Michelangelo Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.

Published References

Toraijiro Naito, Shincho shogafu [Painting and calligraphy of the Qing dynasty], (Osaka, 1916), painters, pl. 10. (repro.).

Yamamoto Teijiro, Chokaido shoga mokuroku [Chinese calligraphy and painting in the collection of the auther]. (Tokyo: 1932), ch.6, 98-99.

Wai-Kam Ho, et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art (The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, c1980), 334, no. 247. (repro.).

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