# A hunting scene

- By: Formerly attributed to Wang Meng 王蒙 (ca. 1308-1385)
- Date: 18th century
- Medium: Ink and color on silk
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 34.9 x 231.8 cm (13 3/4 x 91 1/4 in)
- Culture: Chinese
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1909.231/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/246bb421d55bbbb6b96727512cbd997c.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In this short handscroll, a Manchurian nobleman and his entourage are depicted in a lively fashion as they engage in various activities on their hunting excursion. The actions of the horses--from chasing to catching the quarry--are also well illustrated. Noticeably, the background is rendered in the manner of the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644) landscape master Lan Ying (1585-ca. 1644), revealing an unusual combination of the men-and-horses genre and the later landscape tradition. This may suggest that at least two, if not more, artists collaborated on this painting.