Landscape after Guo Zhongshu
Bada Shanren (Chinese
Painting · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Landscape after Guo Zhongshu (仿郭忠恕山水), c. 1680–1705. Bada Shanren (Chinese, 1626–1705). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; painting: 109.9 x 56.4 cm (43 1/4 x 22 3/16 in.); overall with knobs: 247.7 x 84.5 cm (97 1/2 x 33 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1955.36
Descent of Landscape after Guo Zhongshu
Annotations from the network
Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
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Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.
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The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.
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Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.