If in fact this album is by the hand of Shitao (1643-1707), it would be an example of his earliest style (c. 1667). (The issue of authenticity in Chinese painting is certainly a fascinating subject, which I hope will invite spirited comments on this blog!)
Similar views of Mount Huang by Shitao are published in Vol. I of The Century of Tung Chi-chang. These are in the Beijing Palace Museum collection and appear to be later works, for which the artist may have relied on memory. They are in a slightly wider format and more bluish in tone than the ones presented here.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Album of Landscapes - Shi Tao
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
2 comments:
of course it's hard to tell from small photographs, but several of the leaves remind me of elements of an early Shitao handscroll of lohan in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Leaf 6 in particular is very similar to a passage in that handscroll. See the following: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/09/eac/ho_1985.227.1.htm
It is interesting that Shi Tao did not pursue this relatively 'meticulous' style in most of his later works, but tried to recapture their flavor in the versions of these leaves which I mentioned in my initial post.
See also the Album of eight views of mont Huang, in the Sumitomo Collection.
Post a Comment