Landscapes After Old Masters

Shen Shichong Chinese, active ca. 1607-1640

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Landscapes After Old Masters

1619

Shen Shichong

active ca. 1607-1640

Chinese

Unknown

Ink and watercolor on paper

Image: 12 inches × 8 3/4 inches (30.5 × 22.2 cm) Mount: 15 × 21 1/4 inches (38.1 × 54 cm)

Paintings

Asian Art

Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund and Henry Ford II Fund

78.46.7

This work is in the public domain.

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Stamps, in red, lower left: [artist seals of Contag and Wang #7]

Provenance

Walter Hochstadter (Hong Kong)

(Dr. Frederick Baekeland, New York, New York, USA)

1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Cahill, James, ed. The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period. University Art Museum. Berkeley, 1971, no. 30 (ill.), pp. 86-87.

Bieberly, Rebecca. “Envisioning Prints as Paintings: Folios from Chinese Art Books in the Detroit Institute of Arts.” Bulletin of the DIA 92, no. 1/4 (2018): p. 31.

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Shen Shichong, Landscapes After Old Masters, 1619, ink and watercolor on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund and Henry Ford II Fund, 78.46.7.

Landscapes After Old Masters
Landscapes After Old Masters