Painting

  • Important Cultural Property

Mountain Landscape at Sunset

  • By Ma Lin, with inscription by Empelor Lizong
  • China Southern Song dynasty, dated 1254
  • Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk
  • h: 51.4cm　w: 26.6cm
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This is a superb example of Southern Song dynasty academic landscape painting, created in a simple composition based on diagonal lines and cautiously exact brushwork.