Mountain Landscape after Snowfall

Artist/Culture Chinese

DateLate Ming Dynasty (late 1500s–1600s)

Mediumblack ink on silk backed with paper

Dimensionsimage: 178.3 x 107.6 cm (70 3/16 x 42 3/8 in.)
overall: 274.5 x 122.4 cm (108 1/16 x 48 3/16 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Miss Florance Waterbury

Terms

Object number1955.47

DescriptionStyle of No Sung Period (960–1280) but painted later (late 16th–17th century) during the Ming Dynasty.
Label TextThis painting is not an original conception but belongs to a group of winter landscapes that are copies or variations of a lost Sung dynasty original in the Li Cheng-Guo Hsi tradition (10th-11th century). Although the shapes of the cliffs, rocks and boulders are creviced and varied, these natural forms are reduced to an almost abstract rhythmic design on the picture surface. The reduction of texture strokes and tonal contrast and increased patterning and abstraction suggest that it is the work of an unidentified late Ming professional painter from Fukien province where a pre-occupation with the revival of Sung styles produced a number of paintings with similar stylistic characteristics.ProvenanceMiss Florance Waterbury, New York, NY

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