Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 2

Fan Qi's painting on this second leaf of the album is, perhaps, based on Du Mu's poetic line: The herdboy pointed to the distant Apricot Village.

Han Tan's calligraphic colophon facing the painting reads:
A thousand feet of red cliffs look like a sculptured flower of furong;
In one glance, the long bridge joins adjacent ridges.
Furthermore a wine shop stands in a bamboo grove;
The fellow who bought some good wine is drunk on the eastern shore of the stream.

A horizontally oriented ink and color painting on silk depicts a serene landscape. In the foreground, a wooden bridge spans calm water beside a hill with dark, dotted foliage. A tiny sailboat drifts past central islands toward steep, tan cliffs topped with green plateaus and expressive dashes of shrubs. Hazy mountains recede into the distance. Two red seals mark the lower-left corner.

Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 2

early 1650s

Fan Qi

(Chinese, 1616–after 1694)

China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

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