Landscape of the four seasons
Wei Zhike created this ambitious landscape, in which both seasons and styles change as the scroll unfurls, just a few years before the fall of the Ming dynasty. Nanjing painters of Wei’s time often depicted local sites, a reflection of the pride they and their patrons felt in the city’s millennia of history to conjure reminiscence and nostalgia. Sections of this scroll seem to resemble known locations, but as the artist did not identify them with inscriptions, the places have not been definitively identified.
Artwork Details
- 明 魏之克(魏克) 四時倣古山水圖 卷
- Title: Landscape of the four seasons
- Artist: Wei Zhike (Chinese, active ca. 1600–after 1636)
- Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Date: 1635
- Culture: China
- Medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Overall with mounting: 12 5/8 in. × 38 ft. 10 in. (32.1 × 1183.6 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Gift of J. T. Tai, 1968
- Object Number: 68.195
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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Han Gan
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Wang Duo
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