清 龔賢 山水圖 冊|Landscapes
1680s
Medium
Album of six paintings; ink on paper
Dimensions
Each: 8 3/4 x 17 3/8 in. (22.2 x 44.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Sackler Fund, 1969
Accession Number
69.242.16–.21
Tags
Art Historical Context
Gong Xian’s “Landscapes” album, created in the 1680s during China’s Qing dynasty, offers a quiet yet powerful meditation on nature. As one of the leading individualist painters of his time, Gong worked in Nanjing after the fall of the Ming dynasty, using landscape painting as a means of personal reflection and artistic independence. This intimate album of six leaves invites viewers to journey through misty mountains and winding rivers rendered entirely in ink on paper, capturing the timeless Chinese ideal of harmony between humanity and the natural world. The album format itself is significan...
About the Artist
Gong Xian · 1619–1689
Chinese, 1619–1689