Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: after Gao Kegong (1248-1310)

Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 1642

Lan Ying
Chinese, 1585-c. 1664

Artist: Lan Ying
Title: Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: after Gao Kegong (1248-1310)
Origin: China
Date: 1637–1647
Medium: Album leaf; ink and colors on paper
Inscriptions: the 1st leaf Gao Yanjing (Gao Kegong, 1248-1310) painted the Autumn Clearing in the Misty Woods. This is painted in the style of Gao; I ask for Mr. Jiou’s instruction. In the year of renwu [1642], Ying.
Dimensions: 31 × 40.7 cm (12 × 16 in.)
Credit Line: Samuel M. Nickerson fund
Reference Number: 1958.395.b

Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, 1958.Art Institute of Chicago, Ming-Ch’ing Dynasties, A.D. 1368-1644, A.D. 1644-1912, 1964 exh cat. p.11-12)
“Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1958,” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, 13 (1959), p. 90, fig. 4.
Kei Suzuki, comp., Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings [Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku], American and Canadian Collections, (University of Tokyo Press, 1982), page l-36, 37, A3-022: 8/8.
Elinor L. Pearlstein and James T. Ulak, Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993), pp. 76-77, p. 78 (ill.), p. 149.

Art Institute of Chicago, Ming-Ch’ing Dynasties, A.D. 1368-1644, A.D. 1644-1912, August 7-October 11, 1964.

Purchased from Kozo Harada, Tokyo

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