Unidentified Artist, in the style of An Kyon (active ca. 1440-1470) / Landscapes in the Style of An Kyon. Right: Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting. Left: Evening Bell from Mist-Shrouded Temple / Choson dynasty (1392-1910), 15th century

Unidentified Artist, in the style of An Kyon (active ca. 1440-1470)
Landscapes in the Style of An Kyon. Right: Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting. Left: Evening Bell from Mist-Shrouded Temple
Choson dynasty (1392-1910), 15th century
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Creator Name: Unknown
Creator Name-CRT: Unidentified Artist, in the style of An Kyon (active ca. 1440-1470)
Title: Landscapes in the Style of An Kyon. Right: Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting. Left: Evening Bell from Mist-Shrouded Temple
View: Full View, Right Scroll
Creation Start Date: 1400
Creation End Date: 1499
Creation Date: Choson dynasty (1392-1910), 15th century
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on silk
Dimensions: Each 34 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (88.3 x 45.1 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1987.278ab
Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Rose and John B. Elliott Gifts, 1987
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

Right: Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting. Left: Evening Bell from Mist-Shrouded Temple. These landscape paintings reflect the style of the school of the influential court artist An Kyon (active ca. 1440-1470) in their dramatic brushwork and use of discrete landscape elements to define space. Depicted are two scenes from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, a Chinese pictorial and poetic theme that was popular in the Choson dynasty (1392-1910). The theme celebrates the landscape of the Lake Dongting region, in the modern Chinese province of Hunan, into which the two rivers flow. The poems extol the region's luxuriant beauty and romantic aura as a place of retreat and reclusion, aspects traditionally associated with the legend of Qu Yuan (343-278 B.C.), a statesman of ancient China who was banished to the south because of false accusations against him and, finally, in despair over his fate, drowned himself.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1987.278ab
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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