Landscape Album in Various Styles: Traveling in Autumn Mountains
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: Traveling in Autumn Mountains is a 1684 unspecified by Zha Shibiao, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows scenes of everyday life in the Chinese countryside. It's an album of landscapes with people doing ordinary things. The artist painted it when he was 68, which is interesting because he was still creating new work at an older age. He used fresh colors and wet strokes to depict typical scenes of Jiangnan. The artist's use of color and style is notable, especially in the way he shows the changing seasons. Check out the work of artist: Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698)
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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