The Wangchuan Villa 網川圖
Artist Unknown, with spurious signature of Li Gonglin 傳 李公麟 (Chinese, 1049–1106)
Jin dynasty (1115–1234) or later, 13th century
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 26.3 × 554 cm (216 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- China
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Kate S. Buckingham Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This painting depicts the private estate of Wang Wei (c. 699–761), a government statesman renowned as a poet, painter, calligrapher, and musician. Wang periodically retired to this countryside villa, which he described in a painting and in a poem of 20 quatrains. Although Wang’s original pictorial composition is not preserved, this early reinterpretation depicts the scenic spots vividly described in his poetry.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
