Enjoying the Wilderness in an Autumn Grove
Original title
Ni Zan 倪瓚
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 1989.363.38
- Credit
- Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1374. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A spare ink landscape. A cluster of thin autumn trees grows from rounded rocks in the foreground, a small thatched pavilion stands at the water’s edge behind them, and a calm river opens toward low hills. Inscriptions in several hands fill the paper above.
- Image
- 972 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009018
coldlibrary.com/g/009018 - Credit line
- Ni Zan, Enjoying the Wilderness in an Autumn Grove, dated 1339. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009018
Ni Zan, one of the Four Masters of the Yuan, became famous for a few dry strokes, an empty pavilion and wide water; this early work, painted in his thirties, already has the habit. Later owners added their own poems above, so the scroll is also a long conversation about itself. Look at how much of the river is simply paper.
