清 王鑑 仿古山水圖 冊 紙本|Landscapes in the styles of old masters

Wang Jian|Wang Shimin

dated 1668 · Album of ten paintings; ink and color on paper · Asian Art

Wang Jian, teacher of Wang Hui and close friend of Wang Shimin, stands at the center of the group of scholar-artists who endeavored to establish a new orthodoxy in painting through the vigorous study of past masters. In this gemlike album, Wang re-created in miniature scale the idioms of Song (960–1279) and Yuan (1279–1368) dynasty masters. Conscious of his own role as a transmitter, Wang inscribed each leaf with the name of the artist whose style he interpreted together with an appropriate couplet by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu (712–770).

Artist

Wang Jian|Wang Shimin

Date

dated 1668

Medium

Album of ten paintings; ink and color on paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1979