Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

瀟湘八景の内漁村落照図

1460s–1550s

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follower of Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊

(Japanese, 1420–1506)

Culture

Medium

Hanging scroll from a set of eight; ink and color on silk

Measurements

Painting: 143.7 x 72.5 cm (56 9/16 x 28 9/16 in.); Mounted: 250.8 x 90.1 cm (98 3/4 x 35 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift from the Collection of George Gund III 2015.590

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

This painting incited robust scholarly debate in both Japan and the United States about its date.

Description

This painting and CMA 2015.589 belong to a group that was likely mounted as a pair of four-panel folding screens focusing on the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme centered on an area in southern China. This one represents the motif “Sunset Glow Over a Fishing Village.” Both emulate the style of Chinese painter Li Tang (about 1050–after 1130). Some scholars believe the paintings are the work of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), the only Japanese painter of his day to have traveled to China.