Landscapes
1892
- Medium
- Set of four hanging scrolls; color on paper
- Dimensions
- 149.8 × 40.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-115904
This set of four seasonal landscape hanging scrolls are by Ren Yu. He was the youngest, most eccentric, and least prolific of the Four Rens, a family of prominent painters in Shanghai during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Perhaps due to his opium habit and subsequent financial difficulties, Ren Yu tended to be lackadaisical in his work. The few remaining high-quality paintings hint at his artistic potential lost to opium. Though Ren’s premature death left his artistic promise unfulfilled, his paintings were acquired and donated to the museum by Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), a wealthy bu…
Provenance
Freer, 1915.97
Registry history
- 1892 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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