Ma LinChinese, 1185
Landscape with Flying Geese
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum
About the painting
This minimalist landscape places most of the representational elements in the lower right foreground. A lone gentleman strolls along a zigzagging path by the water. With the gentleman’s staff acting as a visual cue, the viewer’s gaze is directed to geese flying over distant mountains.
The scene of a marshland, with its wet and soft ground dotted with vegetation, suggests springtime in Jiangnan. Combined with the flying geese, the album evokes the poetic lines:
By spring fields, geese are about to return,
Under chilly waters, fish are submerging.
春郊欲回雁, 寒水正沉鱼
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1952.285
In the catalog
Sources
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — Museum open access
