Paintings after Ancient Masters
1625
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1625
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Paintings after Ancient Masters is a 1625 unspecified by Chen Hongshou, a Ming Painting work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a small album of twenty paintings: tiny trees, oddly tall people, and one quiet woman reading. Chen Hongshou painted these late in life, when his style turned quirky and old-fashioned. The figures look stretched, like they’re from an earlier time, but the details feel fresh—no extra emotion, just sharp lines and careful brushstrokes. If you like these, look up *china, ming dynasty (1368–1644)* for more paintings from the same era.
The twenty paintings in this double album by Chen Hongshou include landscapes, figures, and flowers. It also has one leaf featuring a woman, an often-used subject not found in the other albums from the latter part of his career. His late works are wonderful summations of Chen's peculiar and quirky art—archaistic, hyper-refined—but without accompanying shallowness or sentimentality. His figures and landscapes in the late albums are miniaturized, not unlike the small Chinese gardens, or the carefully selected small table rocks or old roots used for contemplation to see the world in miniature.…
Chen Hongshou made this double album with twenty paintings for a friend, Lin Zhongqing.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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