Landscape
1892
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1892
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape is a 1892 unspecified by Ren Yu, a Chinese Orthodox School work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a seasonal landscape in China. It's part of a set of four hanging scrolls. Ren Yu was a bit different from other painters of his time. He had an opium habit and financial troubles, which might have affected his work. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Ren Yu (Chinese, 1853–1901)
This seasonal landscape is from a set of four hanging scrolls by Ren Yu. He was the youngest, most eccentric, and least prolific of the Four Rens, a family of prominent painters in Shanghai during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Perhaps due to his opium habit and subsequent financial difficulties, Ren Yu tended to be lackadaisical in his work. The few remaining high-quality paintings hint at his artistic potential lost to opium. Though Ren’s premature death left his artistic promise unfulfilled, his paintings were acquired and donated to the museum by Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), a…
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