Landscape with Daoist immortals in the mountains
Copy after Qiu Ying ä»è± (ca. 1494-1552)
17th century
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number
F1913.1
Tags
Charles Lang Freer collectionChinaChinese ArtDaoismDaoist ImmortalsMing dynasty (1368 - 1644)Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)blue-and-green stylechessfungus-of-immortality
About this artwork
Wearing leaf jackets and grass girdles, Daoist immortals participate in various activities in this mountain paradise (dongtian) whose entrance is hidden behind coiling pines. Some admire a painting of taiji (the diagram of cosmological scheme), others play weiqi (Chinese chess), and still others enjoy a hearty feast of wine, magical peaches, and fungus. Painted in the style of famed Ming artist Qiu Ying (circa 1494â1552), this seventeenth-century handscroll brings to mind the many yaji (elegan...