Snow Clearing: Landscape after Li Cheng
Original title
Wang Hui 王翬
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 1978.13
- Credit
- Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse, in honor of Professor Wen Fong, 1978
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1717. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A tall winter landscape in ink. Snow-covered peaks and cliffs climb toward the top, bare trees cluster on the rocks, and a stream runs through the lower half; a few lines of small characters stand in the sky at upper left.
- Image
- 696 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009013
coldlibrary.com/g/009013 - Credit line
- Wang Hui, Snow Clearing: Landscape after Li Cheng, dated 1669. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009013
Wang Hui, one of the Four Wangs of the early Qing, painted this in the manner of Li Cheng, a tenth-century master of wintry forests whose genuine works were already rare centuries before. Painting after an old master was a way of keeping a style alive by practising it. The white of the snow is paper left untouched, with ink laid around it.
