清 吳山濤 山水圖 扇|Riverscape with moored boats
Wu Shantao
late 17th or early 18th century · Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper · Asian Art
The obscure painter Wu Shantao lived in the waning years of the Ming dynasty and through the transition to Qing rule. During this period, images of reclusion became particularly poignant, as people experienced the wrenching pain of dynastic collapse and reconstruction. Moored by the water’s edge, unseen except by passing birds, these fishing boats represented release from worldly troubles.
- Artist
- Wu Shantao
- Date
- late 17th or early 18th century
- Medium
- Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
