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| Keywords: Lan Shen - Landscape - Walters 3514.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Lan Shen en Near the middle of this narrow landscape a man sits on the upper story of a building A cascading waterfall above him disappears behind the mountain evidently flowing into a mist-laden stream the eventually meets the river at lower left The water courses isolate the pavilion and the narrow path that leads to it Far above is another cluster of buildings perhaps a Buddhist monastery so isolated that it exists on another plane altogether Lan Shen was the grandson and pupil of a far better-known painter Lan Ying 1585-after 1664 He must have been young when he painted this work in 1659 five years before Lan Ying's own Pine Hawk and Rock Walters 35 6 There is little indication in Lan Shen's landscape that he was following his grandfather in emulating the spare and reserved style of the Yüan Yuan-Dynasty masters Huang Gongwang and Zhao Mengfu 1659 ink colors silk paper cm 168 3 44 8 ; Image L 66 5/8 x W 17 13/16 in 169 2 x 45 3 cm ; W of scroll without knobs cm 63 5 accession number 35 14 13919 Liu Sung-pu Shanghai date and mode of acquistion unknown Panama-Pacific International Exposition China Pavilion San Francisco 1915 no 131 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1915 text zh top left seal zh top left text zh bottom right place of origin China Walters Art Museum license 2D Chinese paintings in the Walters Art Museum Lan Shen 1650s landscape paintings 1659 paintings | ||||
