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Schildering
Gao Qipei (ca. –ca.)
1700 - 1750
- Medium
- paper, ink, dye
- Classification
- finger painting
- Dimensions
- height 27.2 cm x width 33.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Mayuyama Junkichi, Tokyo, 1955)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Temple at the foot of a mountain. Gao Qipei (1660 - 1734). China c. 1700. Ink and colours on paper. After passing his 21st birthday, Gao Qipei heldmany high administrative offices. Besides his work within the bureaucracy he also painted, generally using his fingers and nails. As an administrator Gao Qipei travelled extensively. Every one or two years he left Peking for a different region, and as he journeyed he sketched the landscape. Many of the album pages reflect the scenery he passed. His landscapes form only a fraction of his oeuvre; more prominent are his paintings of people, animals and flowers. The inscription, top right: The evening clouds red, the mountains emerald green - the lord with idle hands tarries; his knees fail him, the others so far away. Qipei.
