Landscape in the Style of Zhao Boju (Fang Zhao Boju shanshui)
After Wang Hui Chinese
Not on view
This painting is Wang Hui’s second earliest extant work. Done barely two years into his apprenticeship under the preeminent master Wang Shimin (1592–1680), it shows an approach that differs entirely from that of his earliest known work of 1650 and reflects his exposure to the region’s great collections of ancient masters.
According to Wang’s inscription, the painting follows the style of Zhao Boju (died ca. 1162), a Southern Song academy painter known for his landscapes in the blue-and-green style. The calligraphic contour lines and texture dots of Wang’s interpretation, however, owe more to Wang Shimin than to the twelfth-century master.
One year before his death Wang added a second inscription:
This painting was done in my youth; suddenly, more than sixty years have gone by. Seeing it now I am ashamed of my first steps.
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