Traveling among Mountains and Streams (Translation)
冬山行旅圖扇面軸 清乾隆 錢維城 紙本設色 (Primary Title)
Winter Landscape (Alternate Title)
Qian Weicheng 錢維城, Chinese, 1720 - 1772 (Artist)
Qian Weicheng scored first place on the imperial service exam in 1745 and entered the court at the age of 26. Young and ambitious, he became a leading painter under the guidance of Dong Bangda, a master court painter. This painting, remounted from a folding fan, shows how Qian designed a landscape scene within a limited, arc-shaped composition. Using brown and dark green, he depicts a snowy evening scene of mountains that are deep, silent, and majestic, with lonely travelers crossing a bridge toward a mountain gate on the hillside.
Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
錢維城 Qian Weicheng
臣 chen，城 cheng
臣錢維城恭繪 (Respectfully painted by your servitor Qian Weicheng)
Y.T. Bay 裴元俊 Collection, Robert A. and Ruth W. Fisher Fund
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC
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