Wang Meng / A Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen / Yuan Dynasty(1280-1368);dated 1361

Wang Meng
A Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen
Yuan Dynasty(1280-1368);dated 1361
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Creator Name: Wang, Meng
Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Chinese
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Chinese; ca. 1301-1395 Asia,East Asia,China
Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,China
Creator Name-CRT: Wang Meng
Title: A Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen
Title Type: preferred
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Creation Start Date: 1361
Creation End Date: 1361
Creation Date: Yuan Dynasty(1280-1368);dated 1361
Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,China
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: Hanging Scroll
Materials and Techniques: Hanging Scroll. Blue silk cover; ink and light colors on paper.Landscape, ink on paper with slight washes of brownish red.'A Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen,' and a date corresponding to tenth day of third month, 1361.
Dimensions: 177.8 x 64.2 cm.; Height: 5'10" Width: 25 1/4"
Inscriptions: Inscription in upper right-hand corner bears in seal characters.Two seals at left of inscription: Upper seal--T'ien Sheng; Lower seal--Shu-ming.
AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 1947.728
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund
Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html
Subject Description: Towering crags, studded with trees and shrubs, fill the background. At the base of the mountain, in center foreground, is a house, with a scholar seated on the veranda playing a lute. Two servants at the right, one carrying a number of scrolls. Two largetrees form a frame for the central motif. A small mountain stream flows among rocks, past the house, to lower edge of picture.
AMICA ID: AIC_.1947.728
AMICA Library Year: 1999
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999

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