# Cottages in a Misty Grove in Autumn

- By: Li Anzhong (Chinese, active first half of the 1100s)
- Date: 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)
- Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.588)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1963.588/1963.588_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.