Landscape in the Style of Huang Gongwang Artist: Qian Weicheng (Chinese, 1720–1772)

1753

Asian Art

Not on view

The rustic huts along the pathway at the center of this mountainous landscape provide the only evidence of human habitation within this challenging terrain. Qian Weicheng was a court artist during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor and often traveled with the court to record important locations and events. He used less ink, or dryer brushstrokes, to outline the mountains, and more ink, or wetter brushstrokes, to define them, echoing works by the famous fourteenth-century landscape painter Huang Gongwang.

Medium

Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Dimensions

44 × 14 1/8 in. (111.8 × 35.9 cm)
without mounting: 44 1/16 × 14 in. (111.9 × 35.6 cm)
with mounting: 87 × 19 11/16 in. (221 × 50 cm)
with rollers: 22 5/8 in. (57.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Leopold H. Steiner

Accession Number

1966.135

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Leopold H. Steiner (1919 - 2011), Norwalk, Conn.; gift in 1966 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 54, no. 82, fig. 82
  • David Ake Sensabaugh, "Everlasting Contentment: Chinese Painting of the 18th Century," Arts of Asia (March–April 2018), 82, fig. 2
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls, landscapes (representations)

Subject

plants

Signed

signed by the artist Qian Weicheng; 2 seals of artist Weicheng and Zongpan

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