元 盛著 秋江垂釣圖 團扇|Angling in the Autumn River

Sheng Zhu

ca. 1370 · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk · Asian Art

Both this painting and Recluse Fisherman, Autumn Trees by Sheng Zhu's uncle Sheng Mou are executed in a brush idiom that recalls the Five Dynasties tradition of Dong Yuan (active 930s-960s) and Juran (active ca. 960-95), in which "hemp-fiber" texture strokes were applied in round parallel brushstrokes and plump "moss dots" were used to model the rocks. An insistent kinesthetic energy in Sheng Mou's brushwork relates it to that of Wu Zhen (1280-1354); the nephew's more casual style of painting introduces a new, relaxed feeling into the landscape and figural elements.

Artist

Sheng Zhu

Date

ca. 1370

Medium

Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Purchase, Bequest of Martha T. Fiske Collord, in memory of her first husband, Josiah M. Fiske, Bequest of Mrs. Beekman Hoppin, and Gift of Herman Cooper, by exchange, 1973