Album of Seasonal Landscapes
1684
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1684
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Album of Seasonal Landscapes is a 1684 unspecified by Zha Shibiao, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows scenes of everyday life in a Chinese landscape. It's an album of pictures, each one showing a different season. The artist painted these scenes when he was 68 years old, and they're all set in the Jiangnan region, which is near the Yangzi delta. The paintings are done in fresh colors and loose strokes. The artist was inspired by the typical scenes of this region, like a herdboy on a buffalo. To learn more, look up the museum: The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Zha Shibiao, a native of Anhui province, moved to Yangzhou later in his career, like so many of his fellow countrymen. At age 68, he painted this album with seasonal landscapes in various styles. Painted in fresh colors and wet strokes, all depict typical scenes of Jiangnan, the Yangzi delta: a herdboy on a buffalo wading through water, boating on the stream to the Peach Blossom Spring at Wulin, a waterfront town shrouded in mist, a scholar on his donkey enjoying the red autumn leaves, and drinking tea on a boat while watching migrating birds.
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