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Wen Zhengming
Date unknown · Album of eight painting leaves with facing sheets inscribed with poems, preceded by a four-sheet title piece; ink on paper · Asian Art
In the eleventh century, an artist named Song Di painted a set of melancholy landscapes evoking the river watersheds of the Xiao and Xiang region in current-day Hunan Province, southwest China. Poets of the day responded to Song’s paintings with corresponding poems, giving rise to a tradition of Xiao-Xiang poetry and painting that continued in subsequent centuries in China and eventually extended to Japan and Korea. This rendition bears a signature of the Ming-dynasty artist Wen Zhengming, but both the calligraphy and painting lack Wen’s subtlety; it is believed to have been painted in his style after his death.
- Artist
- Wen Zhengming
- Date
- Date unknown
- Medium
- Album of eight painting leaves with facing sheets inscribed with poems, preceded by a four-sheet title piece; ink on paper
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse, 1972
