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Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen 林麓幽居圖
by Wang Meng 王蒙
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: 1. in upper right-hand corner of painting: title in seal characters, followed by dated signature of artist in regular script: 林麓幽居, 至正辛丑三月小日王蒙畫 [Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen','Tenth day of the third month ofthe xinchou year of the Zhizheng era (1361), painted by Wang Meng]. Artist's seal: Two red seals following the artist's inscription in the upper-right corner of the painting. Upper seal: 王蒙 "Wang Meng"; lower seal: 叔明 "Shuming" (style-name of Wang Meng). Collector's seals: in the lower right corner of the painting, C.C. Wang 王氏季遷珍藏之印 and Li Kefan 椒堂李可蕃鑑藏, bottom left, unidentified Colophons: 1. on the mounting above the painting: by Wu Hufan (1894-1968), dated 1938: 元王叔明林麓幽居圖 勁健暢發在丹青，春曉林泉清集之右, 戊寅吳湖帆題 Followed by studio seal of Wu Hufan: 某景書屋.
Provenance
Chi-Chuan Wang (1907–2003; also C.C. Wang), New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Ming-Chʻing Dynasties, a.d. 1368–1644, a.d. 1644–1912, August 7–October 11, 1964.
Publications
Charles E. Kelley, “A Chinese Landscape of the Yuan Dynasty,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly (April/May 1948): 44–46. Jack Sewell, Ming-Chʻing Dynasties, a.d. 1368–1644, a.d. 1644–1912 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1964), (13). Don Maust, Collectable Chinese Art and Antiques (Uniontown: E. G. Warman, 1973), 108. 鈴木敬, 《中國繪畫總合圖錄》1 (東京: 東京大學出版會, 1982), I-30, pl. A 3-005. Stephen Little, “Early Chinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Museum Studies 22, no. 1 (1996), fig. 18. Stephen Little, “Chinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Arts of Asia (May/June 1999): 49, fig. 4. Joe Parker, Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336–1573) (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), 45, fig. 1.3.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Wang Meng 王蒙 (Chinese, c. 1308-1385)
- Date
- Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), dated 1361
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and light colors on paper
- Dimensions
- 177.8 × 64.2 cm (70 × 25 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Style
- Chinese (culture or style)
- Place
- China
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 1947.728
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