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Follow the red trees along the low banks, then look up through the mist to the pale blue peak at the left.
This album leaf belongs to a set of landscapes in the styles of earlier masters. Its title names Gao Kegong (1248–1310), an important painter of the Yuan dynasty. Lan Ying builds the mountains from soft washes of color without outlines, above a band of trees in red leaf. The Art Institute bought the leaf in 1958.
Album leaf; ink and color on paper · 31 × 40.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: after Gao Kegong
- Artist
- Lan Ying (Chinese, 1585-c. 1664)
- Date
- Ming dynasty (1368–1644), first half of 17th century
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 31 × 40.7 cm (12 × 16 in.)
- Credit line
- Samuel M. Nickerson fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.