Fan page of landscape map of Wang Yuanqi

[Fan page of Wang Yuanqi’s landscape map]

The fan page of the landscape map, painted by Wang Yuanqi in the Qing Dynasty, paper version, color setting, 16.6 cm vertically and 50.4 cm horizontally
The fan page has its own title: “Yimao wrote in summer about the big fool and the small scenery. Wang Yuanqi.” The seal is “Wang Yuanqi’s seal”. “Yimao” is the 14th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1675), when Wang Yuanqi was 34 years old
This picture is a rare work of Wang Yuanqi who learned Huang Gongwang’s painting in his early years. Influenced by his grandfather Wang Shimin, Wang Yuanqi highly respected Huang’s painting and copied it repeatedly. This picture is taken from Huang Gongwang from color setting to strokes. The picture shows that the pine forest and mountain houses are the ideal fairyland in the painter’s mind. With ochre as the main tone, the mountain stones are even chapped and dyed, showing a warm and transparent texture after rain. The trees are mainly composed of horizontal dotted cotyledons, with slightly immature strokes and lack of spatial level changes, reflecting the immature painting style at that time