Viewing a waterfall from a mountain pavilion
Li Yin was a professional painter from Yangzhou, a commercial city located on the Grand Canal just north of the Yangzi River in Jiangsu Province. During the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, Yangzhou’s prosperity supported a number of artists. Li, together with his better-known contemporary Yuan Jiang (act. 1680–1730), worked in a studio of painters that specialized in intricately described visions of palatial architecture set within sumptuous blue-and-green landscapes. In reviving the monumental landscape style of the Tang and Song dynasties, Li Yin and Yuan Jiang also catered to a taste for large-scale hanging scrolls and multipanel screen paintings to decorate the ostentatious mansions of Yangzhou’s mercantile elite.
Artwork Details
- 清 李寅 高閣觀瀑圖 軸
- Title: Viewing a waterfall from a mountain pavilion
- Artist: Li Yin (Chinese, active second half of the 17th–early 18th century)
- Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Date: 1700
- Culture: China
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions: Image: 87 3/4 × 44 3/4 in. (222.9 × 113.7 cm)
Overall with mounting: 10 ft. 3 1/2 in. × 47 3/4 in. (313.7 × 121.3 cm)
Overall with knobs: 10 ft. 3 1/2 in. × 52 in. (313.7 × 132.1 cm) - Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Maitland F. Griggs, 1981
- Object Number: 1981.122
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
More Artwork
A slider containing 5 items.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Yuan Jiang
1691
Central Tibet
ca. 1700
Leng Mei
18th century
Wang Hui
datable to 1698
Kaihō Yūsetsu
mid-17th century
Research Resources
The Met provides unparalleled resources for research and welcomes an international community of students and scholars. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.
To request images under copyright and other restrictions, please use this Image Request form.
Feedback
We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.