Landscape

Artist Shen Yinghui (Chinese, active 18th century)

Date1778

MediumHanging scroll: ink and colors on silk

Dimensions31 1/2 x 14 inches (80 x 35.6 cm)

CultureChina

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineAcquired through the George and Mary Rockwell Fund

Terms

Paintings
Landscape
Scroll
Colors
Hanging scroll
Ink
Autumn
Boats
Bodies of water
Cottages
Fishermen
Fishing
Fishing boats
Men
Mountains
Pavilions
Reeds
Rock
Seasons
Trees
Silk
Chinese

Object number79.009.002

Label CopyShen Yinghui was from Songjiang, Jiangsu province, the nephew of the poet and literati artist Shen Zongjing (1658-1725). Like his uncle, he became known for his landscape paintings, carrying on the orthodox landscape style and taking inspiration from Yuan dynasty masters. Many conservative painters at this time showed their reverence for past ink painting traditions through formulaic compositions that consist of a foreground outcropping with tall trees and a scholar in a pavilion, a middle ground of a watery expanse and a fisherman, and distant rocky peaks brushed with so-called “hemp-fiber” strokes.

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