Paintings after Ancient Masters: A Bird and Peach-Blossom Branch
1598–1652
- Medium
- album leaf, ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 23.8 × 22.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-112958
The twenty paintings in this double-album by Chen Hongshou include landscapes, figures, and flowers. It also has one leaf featuring a woman, an often-used subject not found in the other albums from the latter part of his career. His late works are wonderful summations of Chen's peculiar and quirky art--archaistic, hyper-refined--but without accompanying shallowness or sentimentality.His figures and landscapes in the late albums are miniaturized, not unlike the small Chinese gardens, or the carefully selected small table rocks or old roots used for contemplation to see the world in miniature. …
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1979.27.2.14
Registry history
- 1598–1652 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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