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Follow the river past the villages and the bridge, then up the main mountain to the thin waterfall high on the left and the inscription at the top right.
Wang Yuanqi painted this in 1701 after Huang Gongwang (1269 to 1354), one of the Four Masters of the late Yuan. The grandson and pupil of Wang Shimin, Wang Yuanqi was the youngest of the Four Wangs. The Met describes his strictly abstract manner, modeled on Dong Qichang, as able to make learned allusions to the past while keeping his own artistic identity.
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; with box · 129.6 × 58.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Chinese painting: Qing
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- Museum title
- Landscape after Huang Gongwang
- Artist
- Wang Yuanqi (Chinese, 1642-1715)
- Date
- Qing Dynasty (1644–1911); dated 1701
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; with box
- Dimensions
- 129.6 × 58.5 cm (51 × 23 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Hulburd Johnston
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1642–1715
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.