Landscape

mid-17th century

Not on view

Nearly all of Zou Zhilin’s surviving paintings are rendered in a simplified, almost cartoonish combination of chunky lines and dots. Here, he uses this unusual idiom to describe a humble riverside village backed by distant mountains.

Artwork Details

明鄒之麟山水圖扇面
Title: Landscape
Artist: Zou Zhilin (Chinese, 1574–ca. 1654)
Period: Ming (1368–1644) or Qing (1644–1911) dynasty
Date: mid-17th century
Culture: China
Medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper
Dimensions: Image: 9 1/2 × 20 1/8 in. (24.1 × 51.1 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Object Number: 1989.363.112
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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Poem, Zou Zhilin Chinese, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on mica-flecked paper, China — Poem
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