Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf A (previous leaf 4)

Throughout his lifetime, Xiao Yuncong visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, cities embedded in the fertile and water-rich Jiangnan region, as reflected in his paintings. Xiao painted from nature, and his landscapes are informed by the seasons and his travels, as well as by his experience as a print designer. Xiao’s fresh, light colors continue to appear in later Shanghai school paintings.

This album was formerly in the collection of Li Yufen in Yangzhou and then owned by Wu Hufan in Shanghai. While the artist impressed his seal consistently below his poetic inscriptions in the upper parts of the composition, the red seals on the margins and in the lower corners of the paintings are impressions by the album’s previous owners.

An ink and light color painting depicts a vertical landscape with undulating mountains rendered in muted green and blue. To the right, three figures sit beneath a gnarled tree covered in white blossoms. In the lower left, a crane stands on a bridge near a waterfall and tiled building. Chinese calligraphy and a red seal feature in the upper right corner, with an additional seal in the lower right.

Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf A (previous leaf 4)

1668

Xiao Yuncong

(Chinese, 1596–1673)

China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

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