Untitled
The Met
Artist: Yan Wengui|Unidentified artist(Chinese, 970–1030)
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 9 3/8 in. (23.5 x 23.8 cm)
Credit Line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
Visual Descriptions
AI GeneratedVisual Summary
Brief Description
Muted landscape with mountains, dense trees, water, small structures, and red seals
Detailed Description
The painting depicts a landscape scene rendered in muted brown and dark green tones, presented on a square-ish canvas with rounded corners. On the left side, a large, dark mountain or cliff face rises, densely covered with dark, textured trees that extend from the lower edge upwards and towards the center. Nestled among the trees and at the base of this mountain, small, simple structures with visible roofs are partially obscured by the foliage. A body of water, appearing as a lighter, flat area, flows from the center-left towards the right, separating the foreground from the distant elements. The right side of the painting is more open, featuring a hazy, lighter background with faint outlines of distant mountains or hills. In the foreground on the right, smaller, dark, rocky formations are visible, interspersed with sparse, dark vegetation. The sky above is a uniform muted brown. Several red seals are stamped on the painting: a rectangular one in the upper left, a larger square one in the upper right, and a small square one in the lower left corner.
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