Landscape
The poem inscribed by Luo Hui on this painting reads:
The sunset's shimmering rays weave and
twist following the sail;
Receding mountain light sets off the pagoda.
As one looks up from the river,
The water continues to flow unattended.
[Trans. adapted from Ellsworth et all, Later Chinese Painting]
The literatus Dong Qichang is invoked in the inscription as the source for Luo's style, but the painting embodies more a 19th century notion of the "picturesque" than Dong's intellectual style.
The sunset's shimmering rays weave and
twist following the sail;
Receding mountain light sets off the pagoda.
As one looks up from the river,
The water continues to flow unattended.
[Trans. adapted from Ellsworth et all, Later Chinese Painting]
The literatus Dong Qichang is invoked in the inscription as the source for Luo's style, but the painting embodies more a 19th century notion of the "picturesque" than Dong's intellectual style.
Artwork Details
- 近代 陸恢 山水 扇面
- Title: Landscape
- Artist: Lu Hui (Chinese, 1851–1920)
- Date: 1912
- Culture: China
- Medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
- Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 20 in. (15.9 x 50.8 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
- Object Number: 1986.267.92
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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