Landscape in the Style of Various Old Masters: Landscape after Juran (active 10th century CE)

Artist: Wang Jian (Chinese, 1598–1677)

1669

Asian Art

Each of the eight paintings in this album bears an inscription identifying an important earlier artist as the inspiration for the composition and brushwork. Wang Jian was an ardent collector of paintings and one of four friends with the surname Wang, all well-known painters in the seventeenth century who shared an interest in vigorous study and creative imitations of earlier masters, particularly artists who had become part of an orthodox lineage revered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The inscription on the last page of the album indicates that it was produced, probably as a gift, for a certain Weihou, likely a pen name for a cultivated gentleman with discerning tastes.

Medium

Album leaf, ink and color on paper

Dimensions

image: 8 3/8 × 5 9/16 in. (21.2 × 14.1 cm)
without mounting: 8 1/2 × 5 3/4 in. (21.6 × 14.6 cm)
with mounting: 14 3/16 × 9 in. (36 × 22.9 cm)

Credit Line

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

Accession Number

1976.26.3b

Geography
Culture
Period

Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Lok Tsai Hsien Collection
Bibliography
  • Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 299, ill.
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Additional information

Object/Work type

landscapes (representations)

Subject

mountains plants

Inscriptions

Artist's seal on each leaf, see notes for inscription

Signed

Signature and inscription on 9th leaf 倣巨然

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