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River Landscape with a Port
Also titled Rivierlandschap met een haven
1751
- Medium
- ink, silk
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 10.6 cm x width 193 cm x depth 12.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
This landscape featuring an expansive, panoramic view of the surroundings from above, is quite unusual in Chinese painting. Yuan Yao worked in the port city of Yangzhou, where the Yangtze River meets the Grand Canal. This is probably an actual view of the port city of Yangzhou.
