Scholar on the Bridge
Ni Tian successfully imitated Ren Yi's popular style, ensuring that a second generation of Shanghai patrons could still buy Ren Yi-style works. The freely impressionistic foliage in this fan converts a conventional image of a scholar in a landscape into a fashionable fin-de-siècle production. Layers of built-up ink in the foreground trees project the branches forward in the manner of a spatial experiment undertaken by Ren Yi.
Artwork Details
- 近代 倪田 橋頭隱士 扇面
- Title: Scholar on the Bridge
- Artist: Ni Tian (Chinese, 1855–1919)
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: dated 1901
- Culture: China
- Medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
- Dimensions: 6 3/8 x 19 5/8 in. (16.2 x 49.8 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.267.89
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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Ni Tian
Ni Tian
dated 1904
Ni Tian
1894
China
Stele: Song dynasty (960–1279), 960–68; rubbing: 20th century
Yang Yi
dated 1923
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