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Free Spirits Among Streams and Mountains
(China )
When he painted this long handscroll in 1684, Wang Yuanqi [Wang Yüan-ch'i], the greatest orthodox master of the Qing [Ch'ing] dynasty, had not yet developed the style for which he is best remembered. Grounded in the lessons of his grandfather, the artist Wang Shimin [Wang Shih-min], he aimed in his own way to make a work both as weighty and as free as that which was regarded as the greatest of Chinese handscrolls: Huang Gongwang's [Huang Kung-wang's] Dwelling in the Fuchun [Fu-ch'un] Mountains of 1350.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
James Freeman [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1994, by purchase.
Exhibitions
| 1996 | Free Spirits among Streams and Mountains: A Chinese Handscroll by Wang Yuan-ch'i (1645-1715). The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
China (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Title panel H: 13 x W: 34 7/8 in. (33.02 x 88.58 cm); Painted image H: 13 x W: 279 7/8 in. (33.02 x 710.88 cm); Colophon H: 13 x W: 93 13/16 in. (33.02 x 238.28 cm)
Height of scroll: H: 13 3/4 in. (35 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund, 1994
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
35.198