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Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains

溪山蘭若圖

960–85

Juran 巨然

(Chinese, active 960–985)
Culture
China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
Measurements
Painting only: 184.5 x 56.1 cm (72 5/8 x 22 1/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 260.5 x 77.4 cm (102 9/16 x 30 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer 1959.348
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This hanging scroll with the towering mountain is a prime example of the monumental landscape style of Northern Song.

Description

Monk Juran served the Southern Tang (937–75) imperial house in Nanjing, where he studied with Dong Yuan (active 930s–60s). Both founded the southern landscape tradition, or Jiangnan school, known for gentle misty riverscapes in wet ink.

Juran moved north to Kaifeng when the Southern Tang surrendered to the Northern Song, the impact of which may be seen in this painting, presumably painted after 976. A towering mountain dominates the composition, typically representing the style of the Northern Song academy; while the use of long hemp fiber strokes to texture the mountains, wet dots, and round boulders on mountain tops are elements of the southern landscape tradition.
Vertically long hanging scroll in black ink depicting a mountain extending up from a stream to a wide, bumpy peak. Trees with dots and streaks for leaves gather around the stream winding to the bottom. Nestled below trees, at the bottom, is a square building with a thatched roof, more buildings with triangular roofs clustered between trees above. Navy blue frames the painting, with cream bands above and below.

Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains

960–85

Juran

(Chinese, active 960–985)
China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)

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