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Follow the old man’s gaze past the boy to the open water, then look up at the pine needles drawn in small, fanned clusters.
An old man with a staff and a boy stand under a great pine that leans out from a cliff, looking out over water toward distant hills. Ren Yi painted the round picture in ink and light color on silk and dated it 1883. Like Hu Gongshou’s leaf in this room, it came to the Art Institute from Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair, who had lived in Shanghai.
Ink and light color on silk · Painting: 28.3 × 29 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Chinese painting: Qing
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- Museum title
- Landscape with Figures
- Artist
- Ren Yi 任頤 (Chinese, 1840-1895)
- Date
- Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1883
- Medium
- Ink and light color on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting: 28.3 × 29 cm (11 1/8 × 11 7/16 in.); Album leaf: 30.5 × 36.2 cm (12 × 14 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1840–1895
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.