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Ink landscape scroll with misty mountains over a still lake, a small hut beneath bare trees, and calligraphy with red seals.

A Scholar's Retreat amid Autumn Trees

A hanging scroll in ink on paper shows misty mountains rising above a still lake, with a thatched hut tucked beneath bare trees in the lower left. Columns of calligraphy and red seals fill the upper right and left margins.

Look closer: A small red seal sits along the lower left edge, near the rocks.

Artist
Wang Fu
Date
c. 1403
Medium
hanging scroll; ink on paper
Source
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Size
1581 × 3400 px
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Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1408).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry