Rain in the Cloudy Mountains
Details
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Title
Rain in the Cloudy Mountains
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Artist/maker
Wu Qingyun (before 1857 - 1916) -
Associated place
China (place of creation) -
Date
1915 -
Material and technique
ink and slight colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
45.72 x 96.52 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1963.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1963.3
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Catalogue text
The year of Wu Qingyun's birth is unknown, though his earliest dated work is from 1857. He was from Nanjing, but lived and worked mostly in Shanghai. He spent some time in Japan and is considered by some to have developed Western stylistic features in his paintings. This is evident more in his use of chiaroscuro, in which he may anwyay be indebted to the earlier Qing Nanjing painter Gong Xian, than in any use of perspective.
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. 141 on p. 166, illus. p. 166 fig. 141
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