Cleveland Museum of Art

Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 3

Fan Qi

Date

early 1650s

Medium

album leaf, ink and color on silk

Culture

China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

Department

Chinese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Fan Qi's painting for the third leaf of the album evokes Wang Wei's poetic line: Sit and watch the clouds rising. Xu Fang's calligraphic colophon reads: Green are the reeds, the sun not yet set; Tree foliage and mountain colors divide the lake into two halves. A solitary recluse sits upon a flat bluff, Occasionally observing white clouds rising from the mountain tops. A waterfall descends between two mountains; the series of cascades is hinted by the careful placement of intermittent rocks.

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