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Chinese Landscapes from the Ashmolean Collection

(from 9th Feb until 21st Jul 2013)

Explore the continued tradition of Chinese landscape painting in this complement to the Xu Bing show.

Detail of River Landscape, by Zha Shibiao, Yangzhou, China, 1666 (Museum No: EA1980.142)
Landscape with figure on a bridgefront

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Landscape with figure on a bridge

  • Description

    Dai Xi was a prominent official and painter from a literati family in Hangzhou. His painting style is influenced by Wang Hui (1632-1717) and other orthodox masters of the 18th century. On this painting he has inscribed: ‘Only Wang Hui is the best painter of Blue and Green landscapes. Later people’s copies could never capture his style of thickness and brightness. What I often paint is mostly light and elegant. In this painting I imitate his style without looking at his works. Compared to my usual brushwork, this one appears slightly thicker.’

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Date
    1801 - 1860
    Artist/maker
    Dai Xi (1801 - 1860) (artist)
    style of Wang Hui (1632 - 1717) (artist)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 39.6 x 43.8 cm (height x width)
    painting 25.3 x 31.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    decorated › painted,
    painted,
    covered › coated › painted,
    marked › painted,
    drawn (image) › line drawing › brush drawing
    Object type index
    visual representation › painting,
    visual representation › album
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 1982.
    Accession no.
    EA1982.10

  • Further reading

    Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 14 on p. 37, illus. p. 37 fig. 14

Past Exhibition

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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  • Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Dai Xi was a prominent official and painter from a literati family in Hangzhou (then Qiantang), who spent part of his official career in Guangzhou. He retired from public life in the 1850s, though he later accepted the imperial command to defend Hangzhou against the Taiping army; on the fall of the city to the rebels in 1860 he drowned himself. His painting style is influenced by Wang Hui and other orthodox masters of the 18th century.
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