明/清 佚名 仿夏珪 捕魚圖 團扇|River Landscape with Boatmen
Medium
Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk
Dimensions
9 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (23.2 x 24.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Ming dynasty (?) (1368–1644)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.18.40
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate fan painting, mounted as an album leaf, captures a tranquil river landscape with boatmen navigating misty. Created in ink on silk during China’s Ming dynasty, it is a deliberate imitation of the renowned Southern Song master Xia Gui, whose spare yet evocative style defined the Ma-Xia school of landscape painting. The small circular format—typical of handheld fans—invites intimate viewing, transforming a functional object into a portable world of mist, mountains, and human activity. By the Ming period, artists frequently looked back to Song dynasty models for inspiration, copying...