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Peaks near the Cloud Boat residence

Xuezhuang Chinese

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Xuezhuang was one of a group of seventeenth-century painters who took special inspiration from the scenery of the Yellow Mountains (Huangshan). A Buddhist monk, the artist spent the last three decades of his life in a simple residence there. He called his home the Cloud Boat, a reference to the sea of clouds that would regularly sweep into the valley below. He painted this view from his bedroom, likely in direct response to the scenery.

Peaks near the Cloud Boat residence, Xuezhuang (Chinese, active ca. 1690–after 1718), Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, China

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