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See how the mountain is built from rounded masses covered in short, repeated strokes, then find the houses tucked into its folds and the pines at the bottom.
Wang Shimin, from Taicang in Jiangsu province, painted this tall scroll after Wang Meng in 1664, five years after his Mountain Village in this room. Wang Meng, the last of the Four Great Masters of the Yuan, was known for crowded, richly textured landscapes. The Met notes that Wang Shimin assembled a major collection of old paintings on Dong Qichang’s advice, and that these models defined the lineage of the Orthodox School.
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper · 219.8 × 96.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Chinese painting: Qing
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- Museum title
- Landscape after Wang Meng
- Artist
- Wang Shimin Chinese, from Taicang, Jiangsu province, 1592-1680
- Date
- Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1664
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- 219.8 × 96.6 cm (86 1/2 × 38 in.)
- Credit line
- Bertha Evans Brown Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1592–1680
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.