Boating amid Snowy Streams and Mountains
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Signed: "Wang [Wei] Youzheng's composition imitated by Lan Meng at the Dreaming of Orchids Hall in Chang'an [Beijing]"Like many professional painters trained in family workshops, Lan Meng carried on the style established by his famous father, Lan Ying (1585\u2013ca. 1664). Based in his hometown of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang Province and center of the so-called Zhe school of commercial painting, Lan Meng specialized in monumental landscapes executed in mineral pigments on silk, but he also created intimate works on paper in the styles of fourteenthcentury scholar-artists. Lan Meng's extant paintings date from 1643 to 1671; during the mid-1660s, he worked in the capital city of Beijing, where this painting was created. Snowscapes, featuring white pigment highlights on tree branches, were a particular specialty. Typically, Lan Meng attributed his inspiration to the Tang-dynasty poet-painter Wang Wei (699\u2013759), whom the late Ming painter and critic Dong Qichang (1555\u20131636) regarded as the patriarch of scholar painting. But no reliable work by Wang had survived into the seventeenth century. Instead, Lan Meng evoked his memory by combining a tenth-century composition\u2014tall mountains alongside a deep recession\u2014with a landscape idiom derived from the scholar-painter Huang Gongwang (1269\u20131354).Free picture Boating amid Snowy Streams and Mountains integrated with the OffiDocs web apps
