Paintings after Ancient Masters: Portrait of Zhongqing in a Landscape
1625
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1625
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Paintings after Ancient Masters: Portrait of Zhongqing in a Landscape is a 1625 unspecified by Chen Hongshou, a ming_painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a small, careful painting of a man in old-fashioned robes standing in a rocky landscape. The trees and rocks are tiny, almost like a dollhouse scene. Chen Hongshou painted this long after the Ming dynasty ended, but he kept the old style alive. He made everything extra neat and a little odd—like a storybook version of history. To see more of his quirky, detailed work, look up Chen Hongshou (Chinese, 1598/99–1652).
