Spring Arriving in the Han Palace 漢宮春曉圖
Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1717
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk
Dimensions
165 × 99 cm (65 × 39 in.)
Classification
hanging scroll
Department
Arts of Asia
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50983
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Yuan Jiang is most renowned for his meticulous “ruled-line painting” (jiehua) of architecture—the only pictorial style to utilize carpentry tools along with the flexible brush. A master of composition as well as draftsmanship, Yuan seamlessly constructed buildings within landscapes of imposing grandeur and unexpected drama. This aristocratic villa and its surrounding garden of large, diagonally swept trees and huge, eroded rocks lies beneath distant mountain ranges that emerge and recede above a...