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The Mountain of Five Cataracts

五洩山

c. 1630

Chen Hongshou 陳洪綬

(Chinese, 1598/99–1652)
Culture
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Medium
hanging scroll; ink on silk
Measurements
Painting: 118 x 53 cm (46 7/16 x 20 7/8 in.); Overall: 232.4 x 69.7 cm (91 1/2 x 27 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1966.366
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Description

A unique landscape painting in the existing body of Chen Hongshou’s art, this painting reveals his involvement with the practice of fang (imitation) to achieve creative transformation. Chen acquired the tradition stemming from Dong Yuan of the Five Dynasties, with which he sought an artistic individuality that lends his work an idiosyncratic vision and extraordinary power.

The Mountain of Five Cataracts

c. 1630

Chen Hongshou

(Chinese, 1598/99–1652)
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

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