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1666, WANGSHIMIN, QING LANDSCAPE PAINTING

Wang Shimin (王時敏; 1592-1680) Chinese Qing Dynasty traditional landscape painting, grisaille ink on paper laid to silk. Signed and dated, In Autumn of the Ninth months of Bingwu years (ca. 1666) Celestial Mountains of gargantuan size expand toward the clear sky above. Misty wisps of cloud construct a tiered composition of the mountain while a large body of water fills up the foreground. Traditional Chinese architecture can be found painted on the mountains ridgeline. Several lifelike trees grapple with rock and lift their limbs in exultation of the great mountains before them. Semi-cursive script calligraphy was written in the blank upper left corner followed by several red seals.