Paintings after Ancient Masters: Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan
Chen Hongshou (Chinese
Painting · album leaf, ink and color on silk
Paintings after Ancient Masters: Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan, 1598–1652. Chen Hongshou (Chinese, 1598/99–1652). Album leaf, ink and color on silk; overall: 30.2 x 26.7 cm (11 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1979.27.1.10
Descent of Paintings after Ancient Masters: Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan
Annotations from the network
Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
- 01
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.
- 02
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.
- 03
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.