Landscape with river and mountains
The artist Hu Peiheng inscribes: ‘Having been raining for several continuous days in the mountain, the mist becomes cloud for the whole day’.
Details
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Title
Landscape with river and mountains
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Artist/maker
Hu Peiheng (1899 - 1962)style of Dong Qichang (1555 - 1636) -
Associated place
Beijing (possible) (possible place of creation) -
Date
1899 - 1962 -
Material and technique
ink and colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
mount 166 x 43.6 cm (height x width)
painting 65 x 28 cm (height x width)
along roller 53 cm (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1966.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1966.195
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Catalogue text
Hu Peiheng, from Zhuo Xian in Hebei province, was of Mongolian nationality and spent most of his career in Peking. He was a member of the traditionalist Peking-based painting society Hu She, which flourished in the 1920s, and was editor of its monthly journal Hushe yuekan. He taught at many institutions in Peking, and was a prolific writer of books on painting method; in conjunction with Yu Zhao (q.v.) he was responsible for a new edition of the seventeenth century Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.
In: Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000)
Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 41 on p. 65, illus. p. 65 fig. 41
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