Reminiscences of Qinhuai River
Shitao (Chinese, 1642–1707)
1642–1707
Medium
album leaf, ink and color on Song paper
Dimensions
33 × 24.3 cm · image: 25.5 × 20.2 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1966.31.7
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
Shitao’s skillfully rendered composition suggests a sweeping movement from the base of the central rising mass, silhouette of forest, and a bright bend of misty atmosphere under the distant hills, to form almost a continual circle of energy—a gentle vortex. That is a perfect embodiment of the early Qing ideal of a momentous flow, with suggestion of the subterranean veins and linkages.