清 石濤(朱若極) 四季山水圖 冊|Landscapes of the Four Seasons
The Met
Artist: Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)(Chinese, 1642–1707)
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Album of eight leaves; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 5 7/8 × 10 3/4 in. (14.9 × 27.3 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
Monochrome landscape with a textured hill, bare forest, and two small houses in a valley
Detailed Description
The artwork is a horizontal landscape painting rendered in a monochrome palette of grays, blacks, and light washes, creating a soft, atmospheric effect. The composition is divided into distinct planes. In the left foreground, a large, rounded hill or mountain slope rises, depicted with varied brushstrokes creating texture and depth in dark gray and black tones, with lighter gray highlights. Small, dark, irregular shapes suggest sparse foliage along its base and contours. Moving towards the center and right, a dense forest of numerous bare, vertical trees with thin branches covers a sloping hillside, rendered in lighter gray washes. Below this forest, in the midground, two small, simple houses with dark, gabled roofs and light-colored walls are nestled among dark, rocky formations and a few taller, bare trees. The ground around the houses and rocks is a light, flat wash. In the background, faint, hazy mountain peaks emerge against a light, almost white sky, blending into the upper portion of the painting. On the far left, vertical lines of dark text are visible, accompanied by two red square seals at the bottom. On the far right, near the top and bottom, are three more red square seals.
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