Rear View of the Mountain Villa for Watching Clouds

Calligrapher Zhang Xianghe Chinese

1844–45

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Yu Zouyan inherited the manner of Wang Yuanqi from his father, who had studied with Wang’s grandson Wang Chen. Here, he applies Wang Yuanqi’s signature combination of ink texturing with blue and green dots to depict the villa of a prominent scholar-official named Zhang Xianghe.

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清　余奏言、顏炳、張祥河　望雲山莊後圖　卷
Title: Rear View of the Mountain Villa for Watching Clouds
Artist: Yu Zouyan (Chinese, 19th century)
Artist: Yan Bing (Chinese, 19th century)
Calligrapher: Zhang Xianghe (Chinese, 1785–1862)
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date: 1844–45
Culture: China
Medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Frontispiece: 12 7/8 x 51 in (32.8 x 129.3 cm);
Painting by Yu Zouyan: 12 7/8 x 39 5/8 in (32.9 x 100.5 cm);
Poems by Zhang Xianghe: 12 1/4 x 74 1/2 in (31.1 x 189.2 cm);
Painting by Yan Bing: 12 3/8 x 78 1/2 in (31.3 x 199.5 cm
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Bequest, 2021
Object Number: 2021.390
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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