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Cottages in a Misty Grove in Autumn
Li Anzhong (Chinese, active first half of the 1100s)
1117
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and color on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 24.2 x 26.3 cm (9 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This leaf is an early example of a new mode in landscape painting expressed in vistas of water-rich scenery that developed since the 900s. Li Anzhong, a court artist during the 1100s, witnessed the transition of the capital from Kaifeng across the Yangzi River to Hangzhou.
