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Landscape in the Style of Fan Kuan (Fang Fan Kuan shanshui),
undated; mid–12th to 13th centuries
Anonymous
Chinese
Southern Song dynasty, 1127–1279
y1984-49
The monumental landscape style of the Northern Song artist Fan Kuan (active 990–1030) is adjusted here to the intimate format of a round fan, in which a majestic plateau is presented in a typical Southern Song “one-corner” composition. Yet, by invoking the eleventh-century master’s monumental image and brush-texture idiom, the artist offered his contemporaries a reminder of their lost northern homeland, abandoned after the Jin Tartar invasion in 1127, thus imbuing the painting with a sense of nostalgia and timelessness.
Information
Title
Landscape in the Style of Fan Kuan (Fang Fan Kuan shanshui)
Dates
undated; mid–12th to 13th centuries
Maker
Medium
Round fan mounted as hanging scroll; ink and light colors on silk
Dimensions
Painting: 23.9 x 25.5 cm. (9 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Mount: 153.5 x 43 cm. (60 7/16 x 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Edward L. Elliott
Object Number
y1984-49
Place Made
Asia, China
Marks/Labels/Seals
Collector seals:
Unidentified
“Shi[ ]” 士[ ], sq. relief (lower left); left section of seal is cut off
Huang Shijian 黃仕簡, zi: Lizhai 立齋 (1722-1789)
“Guanzhong Huang Lizhai ceng guan” 關中黃立齋曾觀, sq. intaglio (lower right, silk mounting)
Ma Jizuo 馬積祚 (20th c.)
“Qingqunyi jianshang” 清群簃鑒賞, sq. relief (lower right, silk mounting)
Culture
Period
Type
- Wen C. Fong, Images of the mind: selections from the Edward L. Elliott family and John B. Elliott collections of Chinese calligraphy and painting at the Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1984)., cat. no. 6
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1984," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 44, no. 1 (1985): p. 24-52., pp. 48–49 (illus.)
