清 佚名　仿惲壽平 夏夜清荷圖 軸|Lotuses on a summer evening

Yun Shouping

likely 18th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Lotuses, a tour de force of "boneless" (color washes with no ink outlines) painting on paper, shows Yun as the most brilliant and subtle colorist of his time. Although the depiction recalls the realism of Song Painting Academy flower paintings, the artist insists in his colophon that he "merely followed the inclination of [his] brushwork in making dots and washes, benefiting from exhilarating accidents and not searching for physical verisimilitude."

Artist

Yun Shouping

Date

likely 18th century

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill, in honor of Professor Wen Fong, 1982