Landscapes after old masters

Pan Gongshou Chinese

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 216

In the waning years of the eighteenth century, the city of Zhenjiang gave rise to a new painting movement that would become one of the most vital forces in the visual arts of the late Qing dynasty. While sharing their contemporaries’ interest in studying old master styles, the painters of Zhenjiang brought their own sensibility to this practice, foregrounding patternization and a bold approach to surface texture. This album by Pan Gongshou, one of the founders of the school, shows him cycling through old masters both familiar and unknown, bringing a fresh new voice to a centuries-old discipline.

Landscapes after old masters, Pan Gongshou (Chinese, 1741–1794), Album of eight leaves; ink and color on paper, China

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