Album of Landscapes: Leaf 61677
Wang Gai painted this in 1677. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art. More about this work
About this work
Wang Gai painted this in 1677. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
How it was made
- Album leaf
- A page from an album, meant to be held and looked at closely, one opening at a time.
- Ink on paper
- Ink made from soot and animal glue, ground with water on an inkstone. A single brush can give a hair-fine line or a broad wash, and nothing can be corrected.
Wang Gai
Chinese, active c. 1677–1705
Wang Gai was a painter active in Nanjing in the late seventeenth century, remembered above all as the principal compiler of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting. Its first part, published in 1679, set out the forms of rocks, trees and other landscape elements and the brush methods of earlier masters in woodblock illustrations, and the manual became a standard primer for painters in China and Japan for centuries.
Written by Ochre Editions.
Chinese painting
Ink and colour on silk and paper, from imperial courts to scholars' retreats.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Cleveland Museum of Art has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1975.64.6
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Type
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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