Paintings after Ancient Masters: Portrait of Zhongqing in a Landscape
Medium
album leaf; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
30.2 × 26.7 cm · sheet: 24.6 × 22.7 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1979.27.1.8
Tags
male
About this artwork
The twenty paintings in this double-album by Chen Hongshou include landscapes, figures, and flowers. It also has one leaf featuring a woman, an often-used subject not found in the other albums from the latter part of his career. His late works are wonderful summations of Chen's peculiar and quirky art--archaistic, hyper-refined--but without accompanying shallowness or sentimentality. His figures and landscapes in the late albums are miniaturized, not unlike the small Chinese gardens, or the care...