# Fishing Recluse by an Autumn Grove (秋林漁隱圖)

- By: Sheng Mao (Chinese (1310-1360))
- Date: late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17th century
- Medium: Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 102.8 × 34.9 cm (40 1/2 × 13 3/4 in.)
- Culture: China
- Credit line: Nickerson Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/80213)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e8ff3093b7b500eeae5e82f6ef2c8c36.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This painting bears a spurious signature of the Yuan dynasty painter Sheng Mou , is likely a 17th-century wholesale recreation of a recorded original of the same title and date done by Sheng Mou for the 14th-century poet Lu Pu. As such, the painting evidences the attention that Sheng Mou's work attracted in the early 17th century, and references in the spurious inscriptions a network of recorded and transmitted paintings seemingly created in imitation of the same original. While the brushwork is related to known 17th-century painting styles, the subject matter and composition of this painting do homage to compositions associated with the work of Sheng Mou.

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