Landscape after Huang Gongwang and Ni Zan

Artists

Description

A horizontally oriented landscape, brush painted with black ink on white paper, covers the length of a long handscroll. Pictured at intervals are three groups of distant mountains and three small hills in the foreground, with stretches of water or empty space between them. A few buildings, groves of trees, and other vegetation appear throughout. There are two inscriptions in Chinese characters at the end of the painting, on the far-left side, and an additional inscription has been added to the end of the scroll on a separate piece of paper. Several red seals have been stamped at the beginning and end of the scroll.

Dimensions

painting proper: H. 32.3 × L. 359.6 cm (12 11/16 × 141 9/16 in.) mounting: H. 33.3 cm (13 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Zhu Zhichi (17th century). Weng Tonghe, China (by 1903), by inheritance; to his son Weng Zhilian, China (1904-1919), by inheritance; to Wan-go H.C. Weng, Lyme, NH (1919-2003), gift; to Ssu Isabel Weng and Hugo I-Hsueh Weng (2003-2022), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022. Footnotes: Zhu Zhichi 朱之赤 (17th century) Weng Tonghe 翁同龢 (1830–1904) Weng Zhilian 翁之廉 (1882–1919) Wan-go H.C. Weng 翁萬戈 (1918–2020) The artwork was on long term loan to the Harvard Art Museums 2003 to 2022.