Guan Xining
Moonlit River Landscape with Figures
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Moonlit River Landscape with Figures” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
The landscape in this painting is based on a story by the 9th-century poet Bai Juyi. One chilly autumn evening, while on a ferry the poet heard music from another boat. Enchanted, he asked the musician to come on board and play for him. If you do not know this story, you would simply see an ordinary landscape with a harbour on a river.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- AK-RAK-1990-15
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
