Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Jen I (Po-nien; Ren Yi)
Title:
Landscape with Scholar and Servant
Collection Title Date:
12th century - 20th century
Title Date:
19 century A.D.
Place of Origin/Discovery:
China
Materials:
hanging scroll: ink and color on paper
Dimensions:
h 69 -7/8 x w 18 -7/8 inches
Current Location:
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Address:
Berkeley, CA 94720
Object ID:
cc.104
Provenance:
On extended loan from the Ching Yüan Chai Collection
Object Type:
Painting
Heading:
Description
Notes:
"This is a painting that is tumultuous and powerful on one level and that also has subtleties. There is a figure of a man walking up the mountain path with a servant over in the middle right, sort of hidden away, and then trees that skewer the whole landscape, so to speak, holding it all together. Jen I uses just little areas of color to tie things together. Green is repeated up above so you can see where the path goes, how you climb up it. It looks like it has been done very casually, spontaneously, and probably was, and at the same time it's very solidly put together by this great master."
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/ft1p30016 b

Landscape with Scholar and Servant