Landscape in the style of Shen Zhou
Painted near the end of his life, this is Cai Jia’s homage to the style of Shen Zhou (1427–1509), one of the most admired painters of the Ming dynasty. Cai’s brushwork is a strikingly accurate evocation of Shen’s, but he distinguished himself with a denser approach to composition, especially in the blue mountains that rim the scroll’s upper edge. Cai also made the unusual choice to tone the river with a very faint blue; most Chinese painters indicate water by leaving the area unpainted. He made this work for Ji Yun, one of the preeminent scholar-officials of the eighteenth century.
Artwork Details
- 清 蔡嘉 龝林感舊圖 卷
- Title: Landscape in the style of Shen Zhou
- Artist: Cai Jia (Chinese, 1686–1779)
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: 1776
- Culture: China
- Medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 12 3/16 in. × 11 ft. 4 5/8 in. (30.9 × 347 cm)
Image (inscription): 12 15/16 × 84 1/2 in. (32.9 × 214.6 cm)
Overall with mounting: 14 1/16 in. × 22 ft. 7 1/4 in. (35.7 × 689 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Gift, 2024
- Object Number: 2024.289
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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