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Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters

倣古山水圖冊

1690

Mei Qing 梅清

(Chinese, 1623–1697)
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Culture
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Medium
album leaf: ink and color on paper
Measurements
Overall: 28.6 x 44 cm (11 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1962.157.8
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This leaf presents a rising promontory in the near distance, whose base is hidden by a dense grove of barren, autumnal trees. A gentle incline emerges from the lower right, with a small path leading to its summit, where a gentleman is sheltered from the wind by two pines. This promontory resembles Guangming Ding 光明頂 (Summit of the Bright and Luminous), the second tallest peak in Huangshan 黃山 (Mt. Huang or Yellow Mountain), the scenic area that inspired much of Mei Qing’s artistic production. Instead of looking down on the “Sea of Clouds,” though, as one who scales Huangshan’s peak would, this gentleman is looking out at two boats on an actual sea.
An ink and color painting on beige paper depicts a horizontal landscape. In the lower right, dense, leafless bushes border a rocky cliff where a tiny figure sits beneath two slender trees. They look across a vast expanse of pale tan water toward soft, hazy blue-gray mountains and a lone sailboat on the horizon. Vertical Chinese calligraphy and red seals feature on the left, with another seal in the bottom right corner.

Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters

1690

Mei Qing

(Chinese, 1623–1697)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

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