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River and Mountains on a Clear Autumn Day

江山秋霽圖

c. 1624–27

Dong Qichang 董其昌

(Chinese, 1555–1636)
Culture
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Medium
Handscroll; ink on Korean paper
Measurements
Painting only: 38 x 136.8 cm (14 15/16 x 53 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1959.46
Public Domain
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Did You Know?

The painting has an imprint of a Korean seal that reads "Seal of the king of Joseon."

Description

Dong Qichang had a tremendous impact on the artistic practices and historiography of later generations; his works and writings shaped literati aesthetics. Here, Dong places an abstract landscape composition diagonally across the picture plane, configured to recall earlier masters and simultaneously express his own personal style. Dong’s inscription claims, Huang Gongwang’s Autumn Day, looks like this. I truly regret the master has not seen my work. In fact, Dong Qichang may have had Dong Yuan’s Xiao and Xiang Rivers in mind, a work he owned and considered a key work in Chinese art history.
Horizontally long handscroll in black ink with Chinese calligraphy on the left half (see "Inscriptions") and a rocky mountain landscape on the right. A central, diagonal ridge of rocks is flanked by two shallower ridges, one on the right made up of branching trees adorned with smudges and loose circles as leaves. Smaller streaks of trees and foliage adorn the central ridge, while the furthest left is bare. Red stamps intersperse with more text.

River and Mountains on a Clear Autumn Day

c. 1624–27

Dong Qichang

(Chinese, 1555–1636)
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

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