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Unidentified|Qian Xuan
Unidentified|Qian Xuan is a Ming dynasty painting artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This painter lived in the quiet shift between two dynasties but kept his Song-era habits like a held breath. He signed scrolls as “Mr. Yuzhai” and fled north rather than serve the new Mongol court, yet he still painted peonies and cranes that feel courtly even in exile. His ink-and-color *Pear Blossoms* roll (around 1280) lets you walk through a moonlit orchard where every branch has its own heartbeat. Swipe to see how a refugee’s brush kept an older world alive.
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