Mountain Landscape Artist: Unknown

late 14th - early 15th century

Asian Art

Not on view

The title strip at upper right, added to the mat in the early twentieth century, optimistically attributes this painting to Li Di (ca. 1125–ca. 1200), a painter at the Northern Song court. The style, particularly the density of the brushstrokes used to define the foliage and rocks, and the sense of abstraction in the rendering of landscape features, however, indicate that it was painted in the early years of court painting under the Ming dynasty. The theme of a solitary scholar traveling from a rustic retreat to a family compound was important in both painting and the three-dimensional arts in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

Medium

Album leaf: ink and color on silk

Dimensions

14 1/2 × 13 in. (36.8 × 33 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

1952.52.25.11

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Classification

Paintings

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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
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 220, no. 428, ill
  • Louise Wallace Hackney and Chang-foo Yau, A Study of Chinese Paintings in the Collection of Ada Small Moore (London: Oxford University Press, 1940), no. 30, 2
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

landscapes (representations)

Subject

mountains

Marks

Seal on mounting: Mrs. William H. Moore (collector)

Inscriptions

Label reads: "Li Di of Song"

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