Zhi and Xu's Pure Conversation
A tall hanging scroll in ink on paper shows a gnarled pine rising beside a steep rocky cliff, with misty mountains receding at left. Two tiny seated figures rest near the shore at lower left, and a column of calligraphic verse runs down the upper left.
Look closer: Two tiny seated figures on the shore beneath the pine's trunk, easy to overlook against the rocks.
- Artist
- Lan Ying
- Date
- 1643
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 1476 × 3400 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1643).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
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, Gift of Stephen O. K. Chen