# Bamboo

- By: Chen Jiecan (1789–1861)
- Date: c. 1800 - 1825
- Medium: paper, ink
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: diameter 30 mm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of Baron Kitagaki Shinichi, 1930)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-98--897a08b52283e6bd71164267136ed257)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b1fcbd86ad89554c44267fb9277b0b6c.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Bamboo is among the favourite motifs of so-called literati painting, which was done for China’s cultural elite. It also symbolizes the humility of a true gentleman. The painter could demonstrate his mastery of the brush by playing with the contrast between dark and light ink. Here the artist used wet ink wash to depict bamboo in the rain.