River Village in Autumn Dawn
Zhao Lingrang (also known as Zhao Danian), a scion of the Song imperial family, was forbidden by dynastic statutes to travel any distance from the capital; he therefore painted mostly intimate, local, suburban scenery. As a collector, Zhao learned painting by studying ancient masterworks rather than the often wild nature of northern China, as did his great contemporaries such as Guo Xi (ca. 1000–ca. 1090). Turning his limitations into a virtue, Zhao strove to capture the mood of single lyrical moments with all their particular qualities, thereby presaging the more intimate "mind landscapes" of the Southern Song and Yuan periods.
Artwork Details
- 北宋 傳趙令穰 江村秋曉圖 卷
- 南宋 舊傳 趙令穰 江村秋曉圖 卷
- Title: River Village in Autumn Dawn
- Artist: After Zhao Lingrang (Chinese, active ca. 1070–1100)
- Period: Song dynasty (960–1279)
- Date: 13th century
- Culture: China
- Medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions: Image: 9 5/16 x 41 in. (23.7 x 104.1 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1973
- Object Number: 1973.121.2
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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