In the Palace
Unidentified artist
In the Style of Zhou Wenju Chinese
This sketch, made by a Japanese artist in the early twentieth century, preserves a more complete version of the fragmentary Chinese handscroll nearby. The Chinese original was painted using only ink and red color, but this scroll features a variety of pigments, along with brush-written notations for further coloration. This, coupled with the fact that the compositions are slightly different, suggests that the Japanese painter was looking at another version of the original. Nevertheless, it is an important resource for understanding what the earlier painting might have looked like before it was separated into multiple pieces.
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