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Quails and Sparrows in an Autumn Scene

秋景鶉雀圖

1347

Wang Yuan 王淵

(Chinese, c. 1299-after 1366)
Culture
China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Medium
hanging scroll, ink on paper
Measurements
Painting: 114.3 x 56 cm (45 x 22 1/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 267.5 x 85 cm (105 5/16 x 33 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.91
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Wang Yuan was from Qiantang, today’s Hangzhou in eastern China.

Description

The flower-and-bird subjects here are depicted in a meticulous manner, echoing the academic tradition but translating the customarily colored images to plain monochrome. Fine ink lines combined with carefully graded washes define the contours and give subtle modeling to the natural forms.

Wang Yuan excelled in flower-and-bird subjects as well as landscape and figure paintings. A child prodigy, he was instructed by the great Yuan master Zhao Mengfu at an early age.

Quails and Sparrows in an Autumn Scene

1347

Wang Yuan

(Chinese, c. 1299-after 1366)
China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)

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