Under the Pine

Description Standing in one corner of the picture, surrounded by angularly-brushed tree and rock, a scholar faces mist and gushing water. The subject matter, painting style, and composition were all developed by the painter Ma Yüan around 1200 and repeated in countless later works.

Exhibitions

• Déjà Vu? Recurrence. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2007-2008.

Provenance Dr. John C. Ferguson [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John C. Ferguson Sale, American Art Association, New York, April 7, 1916, no. 235; Henry Walters, Baltimore, April 7, 1916, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Sticker] 1400-4; [Sticker] With price

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1916