Landscape after Hua Yan
Liu Yanchong Chinese
Not on view
A landscape of writhing, fantastic forms spreads across this small handscroll in muted tones of dilute ink and ochre. A mountain gate, visible in red at the summit of a pass, punctuates a hillside. A grove of wavy trees defines the foreground. Here and there, pilgrims move through the mountains. As the scroll unfurls, the landscape fades into nothingness, a void over which the artist has added a lengthy inscription.
This painting is a nineteenth century interpretation by Liu Yanchong of an earlier work by the artist Hua Yan (1682–1756). Liu inscribed the painting twice, placing his own signature at the right (opening) edge, in which he identifies the painting as a copy of Hua Yan’s original, and copying Hua’s original inscription (dated 1729) and signature along the left (closing) edge of the painting.
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