近代 倪田 橋頭隱士 扇面|Scholar on the Bridge

Ni Tian

dated 1901 · Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper · Asian Art

Ni Tian successfully imitated Ren Yi's popular style, ensuring that a second generation of Shanghai patrons could still buy Ren Yi-style works. The freely impressionistic foliage in this fan converts a conventional image of a scholar in a landscape into a fashionable fin-de-siècle production. Layers of built-up ink in the foreground trees project the branches forward in the manner of a spatial experiment undertaken by Ren Yi.

Artist

Ni Tian

Date

dated 1901

Medium

Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986