The Elixir Terrace: Landscape after Shitao
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.The soaring peaks and overhanging cliff of this painting convey the scenic drama of Mount Huang (Yellow Mountain) in Anhui Province, where the legendary Yellow Emperor was said to have refined the elixir of immortality. In its conception, Fu’s composition is indebted to the imaginative renderings of the mountain by Shitao (1642–1707), but Fu’s hallmark texture strokes—swiftly brushed marks of different ink densities—create forms that appear both substantial and transparent.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Elixir Terrace: Landscape after Shitao
- Artist: Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904–1965)
- Date: dated 1956
- Culture: China
- Medium: Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 41 5/16 x 23 11/16 in. (104.9 x 60.1 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Lent by Nanjing Museum
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art