Description
Above the beautiful woman at bottom center in this delicately painted landscape are a willow tree, a fancy mist-shrouded garden pavilion, and towering mountains.
Spurious inscription, signature, and seals of Li Shida (active 1573-1619).
Provenance
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 216]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Inscription] 庚子夏五月畫(?)李士達為梅巖學長兄正(?); [Seal] At top: Shida; [Seal] Bottom left
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1915