Mountain Landscape
School of
Zhou Chen
(Chinese, 1460 - 1535)
Date16th century
MediumHanging scroll; ink and color on silk mount
DimensionsImage: 36 3/4 × 19 1/4 inches (93.35 × 48.9 cm)
Mount: 83 × 20 inches (210.82 × 50.8 cm)
Mount: 83 × 20 inches (210.82 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-277
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DescriptionMountain landscape with figures. Foreground: figures on horseback crossing bridge leading to a pavilion where people are seated. Two gentlemen standing on an arched bridge, with small attendant carrying a wrapped lute. Background: two-storied gate, and group of buildings in forest. Signature of Chou Ch'en. Silk much darkened with age.ProvenanceWith Kuan Ku Ko, Peiping (modern-day Beijing), China, by April 11, 1934;
Purchased from Kuan Ku Ko, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.
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Shen Zhou
late 15th century
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