Second half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi River late 15th century Unidentified artist This is the second half of a handscroll that was separated into two pieces—for the first, see The work follows the style of the thirteenth-century painter Xia Gui, whose sharp, angular brushwork and evocative mist-enshrouded scenes were much admired in the fifteenth century, especially at the Ming-dynasty court. The composition is based in part on Xia’s Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains (National Palace Museum, Taiwan). The survival of other oversize copies of Pure and Remote View fro

Second half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi River late 15th century Unidentified artist This is the second half of a handscroll that was separated into two pieces—for the first, see The work follows the style of the thirteenth-century painter Xia Gui, whose sharp, angular brushwork and evocative mist-enshrouded scenes were much admired in the fifteenth century, especially at the Ming-dynasty court. The composition is based in part on Xia’s Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains (National Palace Museum, Taiwan). The survival of other oversize copies of Pure and Remote View from this period—including one in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, —attest to the painting’s popularity among fifteenth-century Second half of Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi River. Unidentified artist. China. late 15th century. Handscroll; ink and color on silk. Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Paintings

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