清 任薰 高士臨風 扇面, Scholar in the Wind, Ren Xun, ca. 1880

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清, 任薰, 高士臨風, 扇面, Scholar in the Wind, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), ca. 1880, China, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper, 6 9/16 x 9 3/8 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Ren Xun (Chinese, 1835–1893), Ren Xun first studied painting with his elder brother, Ren Xiong (1820–1857), but his brother's death, when Xun was twenty-two, cut short the apprenticeship. Three years later he found patrons in Suzhou, and by the 1870s his fame had spread throughout the Yangzi River delta region and he had attracted a number of disciples

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