Traveling at Dawn in the Snowy Foothills ãéªéºæ©è¡åã
Attributed to Fan Qi æ¨å» (1616-ca. 1695)
17th century
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number
F1916.139
Tags
Charles Lang Freer collectionChinaChinese ArtQing dynasty (1644 - 1911)blue-and-green stylebridgelandscapemountainsnowwater
About this artwork
At right, a peasant with a load of firewood trudges across a low bridge in the direction of a private, walled estate, which is built on the river at the foot of a steep slope. Admiring the winter scene, two men engage in conversation in an upstairs window of the main building. Stretching off into high mountains, a nearby valley contains other structures, including an idle fishing rig with its net in the water. While snowscapes inherently lend themselves to visual drama in their use of contrastin...