Landscape Album in Various Styles: Pleasure in a Mountain Brook
1684
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
About the artist
1684
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape Album in Various Styles: Pleasure in a Mountain Brook is a 1684 unspecified by Zha Shibiao, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a small album page in fresh colors. A boy rides a buffalo through a stream. Mist hangs over distant trees. The brushwork is wet and loose—just a few strokes for the buffalo’s back. Zha painted this at 68, mixing many styles in one book. He shows the Yangzi delta’s soft hills and quiet waters. The colors stay bright even after centuries. Check out the Cleveland Museum of Art for this album.
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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