Old Trees by a Wintry Brook
1551
- Medium
- hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- 114.3 × 47 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-113789
Wen Zhengming was one of the most celebrated calligraphers and painters during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). His inscription, gracefully written in small characters on the upper left corner, reveals Wen’s emotional mood at that moment of creation. "In the fifteenth day of the fifth month, the year of xinhai [1551], [I], Zhengming, playfully write this Old Trees by a Wintry Brook at eighty-two [sui]." How should we understand a wintery landscape painted in the middle of spring? Was it simply inspired by a surprisingly late spring snow? Or can it be that the “wintery” brook reflects the octogen…
Provenance
Dean Perry, 1997.102
Registry history
- 1551 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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