Autumn Landscape in Blue-and-Green Style

Description Two sages cross a bridge. In the distance are an elaborate pavilion and a tall waterfall partially shrouded in mist. The artist purposefully created an antique-looking painting, making use of the ancient blue-and-green style and incorporating the tall mountain peaks of the monumental landscape tradition. He also wanted the forms to have a structure-that may look to many of us like a combination of interesting abstract patterns.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
9/27/1995	Treatment	stabilized

Provenance Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 5]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] Spurious signature of Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322); [Inscription] lower left; [Seal] lower left

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1915