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Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen, Wang Meng
Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), dated 1361

Wang Meng

c. 1308–1385 · Chinese painting: Liao and Yuan · 2 works

Wang Meng (about 1308 to 1385), last of the Four Great Masters of the Yuan, was a grandson of the painter Zhao Mengfu through his mother. A legal scribe for the Mongol government, he retired to the mountains north of Hangzhou as the Woodcutter of Yellow Crane Mountain. Early in the Ming he died in prison after a purge.

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2 works · 1303–1385

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Artist information: Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum.

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