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Gray-toned hanging scroll with painting of mountains, trees, and buildings

This tall, narrow hanging scroll features dark ink on silvery gray paper. It depicts a path ascending up a tall, craggy mountain. The mountain is lined with evergreen trees and shrubbery. Small wooden house-like structures stand around the base of the mountain. Animals graze outside one building at foreground left. More structures appear to occupy some higher-elevation areas as well, but the large scale of the landscape makes it hard to see their detail. More tall, narrow peaks appear in the background in lighter pigment.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.343
People
Wang Hui 王翬, Chinese (1632 - 1717)
Title
Landscape After Wang Meng's "Immortal Abode in the Pine Covered Mountains"
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
hanging scroll, painting
Date
1701
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/174968

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper; with artist's signature reading "Haiyu Wang Hui" and with artist's and collectors' seals
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 155.6 x W. 58.6 cm (61 1/4 x 23 1/16 in.)
mounting, including cord and roller ends: H. 247 x W. 88 cm (97 1/4 x 34 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Weng Tonghe, China, Collector, 1904.
Mr. and Mrs. Wan-go H.C. Weng, Lyme, New Hampshire, Inherited from Weng Tonghe (1830-1904), Gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wan-go H.C. Weng
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.343
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/10/2022 - 06/04/2023

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