明 李流芳 疏林小景 扇|Figure standing in a grove of trees
Li Liufang
1613 · Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper · Asian Art
Painting on nonabsorbent gold paper, Li Liufang used a few quickly executed brushstrokes to sketch a stark vignette of a lone figure standing in a sparse grove of trees. The small circle above the figure’s head is the moon; the shallow sense of space and the ghostly, pale ink may be attempts by the artist to capture the qualities of a moonlit landscape.
- Artist
- Li Liufang
- Date
- 1613
- Medium
- Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
