元/明　佚名　舊傳趙雍　倣盛懋　蘇軾後赤壁賦圖　團扇|元/明 佚名 後赤壁賦圖 扇|Illustration of Su Shi's "Second Ode on the Red Cliff"

Sheng Mao|Unidentified artist|Zhao Yong

late 14th–early 15th century · Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk · Asian Art

The subject and style of this fan painting exemplify late Yuan scholarly taste. The picture illustrates the celebrated "Second Ode on the Red Cliff" by the Northern Song scholar-artist Su Shi (1036–1101), in which a poet dreams that a crane he saw during an outing was a Daoist immortal in disguise. The rough brush idiom is based on the traditions of Dong Yuan (act. ca. 940–75) and Juran (act. ca. 960–95), but the patterned texture strokes, moss dots, and brisk rhythmic arcs of the water reeds recall the fourteenth-century master Sheng Mou.

Artist

Sheng Mao|Unidentified artist|Zhao Yong

Date

late 14th–early 15th century

Medium

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

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913