明（？）　陸克正　倣北苑山水　扇|Landscape in the manner of Dong Yuan

Dong Yuan|Lu Kezheng

1591/1651 · Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper · Asian Art

This evocative vignette is signed by a certain Lu Kezheng, an obscure artist who has gone unrecorded in histories of Chinese painting. Centering the composition on the lower half of the fan, Lu left the top shrouded in mist, creating a feeling of suspense by withholding a view into the far distance. The painting is dated according to the sixty-year cycle of the premodern Chinese calendar, so it is not possible to know whether it was made in 1591 or sixty years later in 1651, although the latter seems more likely based on its style.

Artist

Dong Yuan|Lu Kezheng

Date

1591/1651

Medium

Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913