Landscape in the Style of Dong Yuan and Juran

A tall vertical landscape in ink on silk, with layered, craggy mountains rising through mist toward the top edge. Pines and bare trees cluster in the lower foreground beside a stream, and a column of inscribed calligraphy runs down the upper right. Soft gray washes and sparing white highlights create depth and quiet atmosphere.

Look closer: A small white-blossomed tree sits at the lower right, nearly lost against the dark rocks.

Artist

Gong Xian

Date

c. 1650

Medium

hanging scroll, ink with white pigment on silk

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

939 × 3400 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund