Landscape, after Ni Zan, Leaf from the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, part 1, vol. 5
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual was named after the Nanjing estate of the renowned playwright and novelist Li Yu (1611–1680), whose son-in-law commissioned Wang Gai (1645–1710) to compile the book. Part 1, devoted to landscape painting, was published in 1679. Compared with the earlier manual of the same nature, the Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Calligraphy and Painting, it takes a more art-historical and didactic approach. This print, taken from a later edition of part 1, was printed from two or three blocks using varying shades of black ink to reproduce a painting by Ni Zan (1306–1374), one of the four masters of the late Yuan period (1271–1368).
Artwork Details
- Jieziyuan huapu
- Title: Landscape, after Ni Zan, Leaf from the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, part 1, vol. 5
- Artist: Wang Gai (Chinese, 1645–1710)
- Artist: After Ni Zan (Chinese, 1306–1374)
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: ca. 1800
- Culture: China
- Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 8 15/16 x 11 in. (22.7 x 28 cm)
Overall: 16 x 21 15/16 in. (40.7 x 55.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line:
On loan from the British Museum- Donated by K. K. Chow and Messrs Ton-ying & Co.
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art