# Album of Landscapes: Leaf 6

**Wang Gai** (Chinese, active c. 1677–1705)  
1677  
album leaf, ink and light color on paper  
Each leaf: 20 x 22.3 cm (7 7/8 x 8 3/4 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.64.6. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.64.6).

## 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](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Real size: about 8 × 9 in (20 × 22 cm). The 8 × 10 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 17th century
- Movement: [Chinese painting](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/chinese-painting)
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/690.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/690/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68; 20 × 30 in $86; 24 × 36 in $108
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208; 24 × 36 in $258
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118; 20 × 30 in $148
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5; 24 × 36 in $5

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/album-of-landscapes-leaf-6-cma-148347).