Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 4

An album leaf with a column of cursive Chinese calligraphy on the left, signed and sealed in red, facing a small landscape on the right. The painting shows a grey rock mass with ochre-tinted ledges, pine trees on its summit and lower slopes, and tiny figures near water in the foreground, rendered in ink and light colour on silk.

Look closer: A red seal impression sits low in the lower-left corner of the calligraphy page, next to the signature.

Artist

Fan Qi

Date

early 1650s

Medium

album leaf, ink and color on silk

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

3400 × 1782 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund