Mountain landscape
(山水)
1582

CHEN Huan

Medium: ink on silk
Measurements: 108.0 × 31.3 cm (image)
Place/s of Execution: China
Inscription: inscribed in brush and ink (in image) u.c.l.: 壬午秋日陳煥冩
stamped in red u.c.l.: 陳焕 / (...illleg.) 印
inscribed in brush and ink on reverse u.l.: 陳堯峰山水真蹟立軸，顧齊寶藏
Accession Number: 1716-D4
Department: Asian Art
Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1956
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Gordon Darling Foundation
Gallery location: Not on display
Physical description: This landscape depicts rising towering peaks surrounded by mist created by the blank surface of the silk. At the bottom and beginning of the landscape, a scholar is riding a horse followed by two attendants carrying his luggage. They are travelling towards his home and a servant is opening the gate waiting for them. In the mountain near the top of the landscape are temples. The landscape of mountains and trees is painted [written] with very spontaneous and expressive calligraphic brushstrokes, in the tradition of scholar-amateur or literati paintings.

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