Lush Green Spring Mountains Artist: Ye Rong (Chinese, active late 17th century)

1660

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center

The scholar resting on a rocky ledge in the foreground of this painting invites the viewer to share his experience, which is recorded in the artist’s poem at the top left: “On the rock grow nine elegant fresh stems of a divine fungus / The spring mountain—a deep green—is where the scholar sits / A wild crane flies to him as though it recognizes him / On the other bank, the water bird cries loudly three or four times.” The inscription also states that both the painting and the poem were composed by Ye Rong as a gift to a friend on his birthday.

Medium

Hanging scroll, ink on satin

Dimensions

65 3/4 × 19 5/8 in. (167 × 49.8 cm)
without mounting: 66 3/4 × 19 11/16 in. (169.55 × 50 cm)
with mounting: 80 3/4 × 24 in. (205.1 × 60.9 cm)
with rollers: 28 3/8 in. (72 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Cheng Chi

Accession Number

1985.44.1

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Cheng Chi
Bibliography
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 299, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls, landscapes (representations)

Subject

mountains spring

Inscriptions

Shigu

Signed

"Ye Rong". and bearing the seal, "Shigu"; for rough translation of inscription see reverse of worksheet

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