Winter Landscape

Artist, attributed to: Li Shan (Chinese, 1150–1201)

late 12th - early 13th century

Asian Art

Not on view

The title strip at upper right attributes this painting to Li Shan, one of the few painters known to have worked in the north during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries after the Jurchen Jin took over the region from the Northern Song dynasty. The atmospheric landscape, in which a solitary huddled figure crosses a bridge on the back of a donkey; the exaggeration of elements, such as the foliage of the craggy pine in the foreground; and the sharp contrast in the tonality of the painting typify the continuation of earlier Northern Song styles (960–1127) in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Medium

Album leaf: ink and color on silk

Dimensions

9 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (24.1 × 24.8 cm)
framed: 14 1/2 × 13 in. (36.83 × 33.02 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1952.52.25.7

Geography

Associated place: China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

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
Ton-ying and Company, (????) Paris and New York; sold to Mrs. William H. Moore (Ada Small Moore,1858–1955), New York, 1926; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1952
Bibliography
  • Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 296, ill.
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 48, no. 72, ill.
  • Susan Bush, "Clearing After Snow in the Min Mountain," Oriental Art Magazine 1, no. 3 (1965), 163–72, fig. 2
  • Louise Wallace Hackney and Chang-foo Yau, A Study of Chinese Paintings in the Collection of Ada Small Moore (London: Oxford University Press, 1940), 7, no. 30
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Marks

Two seals on painting: "De zhi xinshang (lower right); upper left illegible
Seal on mounting: Mrs. William H. Moore (collector)

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