Object Details
Artist
Shen Yinghui
Date
1778
Medium
Hanging scroll: ink and colors on silk
Dimensions
31 1/2 x 14 inches (80 x 35.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired through the George and Mary Rockwell Fund
Object
Number
79.009.002
Shen Yinghui was from Songjiang, Jiangsu province, the nephew of the poet and literati artist Shen Z(…)
Shen Yinghui was from Songjiang, Jiangsu province, the nephew of the poet and literati artist Shen Zongjing (1658-1725). Like his uncle, he became known for his landscape paintings, carrying on the orthodox landscape style and taking inspiration from Yuan dynasty masters. Many conservative painters at this time showed their reverence for past ink painting traditions through formulaic compositions that consist of a foreground outcropping with tall trees and a scholar in a pavilion, a middle ground of a watery expanse and a fisherman, and distant rocky peaks brushed with so-called “hemp-fiber” strokes.
