明　佚名　陳容(僞款)　九龍行雨圖　卷|Nine Dragons

Unidentified artist

17th century · Handscroll; ink and color on silk · Asian Art

This painting follows the manner of the most celebrated dragon painter in Chinese history, the scholar-official and Daoist master Chen Rong. Chen famously avoided depicting the complete forms of his dragons, preferring to preserve their mystery by partially obscuring them in mists and clouds. In places, the artist of this work depicts a dragon in its entirety, one of the signs that it is a later painting in Chen’s manner. The inscription at the end is either a copy of an authentic Chen Rong or an outright fabrication.

Artist

Unidentified artist

Date

17th century

Medium

Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947