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Dai Xi
Landscape (泉 遏 影 明) 1855
ink on paper
83.7 × 42.5 cm (image)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1956
Photo: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
China
Inscription
inscribed in ink (in Chinese characters) (in image) u.l.:
stamped in red ink (in image) u.l.: 戴熙
stamped in red ink (in image) u.l.: 醇士
Accession Number
1705-D4
Department
Asian Art
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Gordon Darling Foundation
Physical description
A landscape with mountain peaks, a receding river and huts and houses hidden in the midst of trees. In the foreground, two scholars converse within a thatched hut surrounded by trees and bamboos and an empty boat is parked nearby. As indicated in Dai’s inscription, the painting is following the style of HUANG Gongwang; for example, dry brushstrokes, hemp-fibre texture strokes, mist indicated by the blank area of the white paper, and landscape as a spiritual retreat. There are wonderful details such as the delicate brushstrokes representing bamboos. As in the scholar-amateur tradition, the two line poem in the inscription is expressed in the painting. The inscription is written in beautiful and elegant calligraphy.