Landscapes after Past Masters

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Landscapes after Past Masters

1729

Huang Ding

Chinese, 1650 –1730

As Wang Yuanqi’s (1642–1715) best known and most important student, Huang Ding had studiously absorbed and excelled in the ancient masters’ styles endorsed by the “Orthodox School” painters of the early Qing period. This set of album paintings reflects Huang’s debt to these masters, including Fan Kuan, Fang Congyi, Huang Gongwang, Wang Meng, and Ni Zan, whose works were not readily accessible even during Huang’s time. Yet their styles were conventionalized and passed on from masters to students or made available in painting manuals. Huang was able to borrow their brushwork and compositions selectively to create a congruent set of images.
Ink and color on paper
Overall: 13 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. (33.6 x 45 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
56.50.8
Provenance: Yan Xinhou 嚴信厚 (1838–1907); C. C. Wang王季遷 (1907–2003)
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Published ReferencesToda, Teisuke and Hiromitsu Ogawa. Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings: Second Series. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1998. See p. I-362, I-266-7.

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