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Ink and color album leaf: a figure in a small boat by reeds, with reddish trees and a tall craggy rock at right.

Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: Songxuezhai Lan Ying

A small album leaf in ink and color on paper shows a bare-branched tree with reddish foliage and drooping strands beside a craggy rock outcrop at right. A lone figure sits in a flat-bottomed boat at the lower left, among reeds by calm water. Red seal and inscription appear at the right edge.

Artist
Lan Ying
Date
Ming dynasty (1368–1644), first half of 17th century
Medium
Album leaf; ink and color on paper
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1312 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1700).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Samuel M. Nickerson fund