Mount Emei under heavy snow 《峩眉積雪圖》
17th century
- Medium
- Ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 181 × 109.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-124383
Silhouetting the convoluted edges of covered rocks and a complex tracery of dark, leafless branches against the uniform whiteness of deep winter snow, the unknown artist of this work created a frozen landscape of stark dramatic appeal and arresting visual intensity. Mount Emei towers above the western Sichuan Basin and is one of the Four Holy Mountains of Chinese Buddhism. Then, as now, temples p…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 17th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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