Reminiscences of Qinhuai River
Shitao (Chinese, 1642–1707)
1642–1707
Medium
album leaf, ink and color on Song paper
Dimensions
33 × 24.3 cm · image: 25.5 × 20.2 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1966.31.7
Tags
male
About this artwork
Shitao’s skillfully rendered composition suggests a sweeping movement from the base of the central rising mass, silhouette of forest, and a bright bend of misty atmosphere under the distant hills, to form almost a continual circle of energy—a gentle vortex. That is a perfect embodiment of the early Qing ideal of a momentous flow, with suggestion of the subterranean veins and linkages.