清 石濤(朱若極) 重陽山水圖 軸, Landscape Painted on the Double Ninth Festival, Shitao, dated 1705

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清, 石濤(朱若極), 重陽山水圖, 軸, Landscape Painted on the Double Ninth Festival, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1705, China, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 28 3/16 x 16 5/8 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) (Chinese, 1642–1707), Shitao painted this landscape for a young friend who visited him on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month—a festival traditionally celebrated by mountain climbing. Suddenly struck by his own old age, Shitao wrote this inscription: The days when I go climbing are few now and my walking staff no longer helps me

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