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Lot Essay
The painting was inspired by a similarly titled painting by Qu Ding, a mid-eleventh century artist and a court painter employed by Emperor Renzong (r. 1023-63). The Northern Song dynasty painting, formerly in the collection of the C. C. Wang family, and a gift of the Dillon Fund to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents a vast, panoramic landscape of a summer evening following a rain shower.
The poetic inscription describes the landscape and may be translated, 'As the mountains stretch to the edge of the sea, the peaks mingle with the clouds and the landscape extends as far as the eye can see. The waterfall glistens in the changing light; seeking shelter, the poet approaches a passing farmer'.
The poetic inscription describes the landscape and may be translated, 'As the mountains stretch to the edge of the sea, the peaks mingle with the clouds and the landscape extends as far as the eye can see. The waterfall glistens in the changing light; seeking shelter, the poet approaches a passing farmer'.