# The Wangchuan Villa 網川圖

- By: Artist Unknown, with spurious signature of Li Gonglin 傳 李公麟 (Chinese, 1049–1106)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/96627)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d555d6f1-b2cb-b07f-51a2-45a7d3aaa571/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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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.

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