Album of Seasonal Landscapes
1668
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1668
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Album of Seasonal Landscapes is a 1668 unspecified by Xiao Yuncong, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This album holds twelve small scenes of rivers, hills, and trees changing with the seasons. Each page feels like a quiet walk through southern China. Xiao Yuncong worked as a print designer, so his landscapes have a crisp, almost printed look. The colors stay soft—misty blues and pale greens—that make the scenes feel fresh, not heavy. Later artists in Shanghai borrowed his light touch. To see how his style spread, look up subject: china, qing dynasty (1644-1911).
Throughout his lifetime, Xiao Yuncong visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, cities embedded in the fertile and water-rich Jiangnan region, as reflected in his paintings. Xiao painted from nature, and his landscapes are informed by the seasons and his travels, as well as by his experience as a print designer. Xiao’s fresh, light colors continue to appear in later Shanghai school paintings. This album was formerly in the collection of Li Yufen in Yangzhou and then owned by Wu Hufan in Shanghai. While the artist impressed his seal consistently below his poetic inscriptions in the upper parts of the…
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