Paintings after Ancient Masters: A Bird and Peach-Blossom Branch

Chen Hongshou

The twenty paintings in this double-album by Chen Hongshou include landscapes, figures, and flowers. It also has one leaf featuring a woman, an often-used subject not found in the other albums from the latter part of his career. His late works are wonderful summations of Chen's peculiar and quirky art--archaistic, hyper-refined--but without accompanying shallowness or sentimentality.<br><br>His figures and landscapes in the late albums are miniaturized, not unlike the small Chinese gardens, or the carefully selected small table rocks or old roots used for contemplation to see the world in miniature. This loss of scale is quite deliberate and reflects the psychological situation of a depressed class like the Ming loyalist officials and scholars, deprived of their integrity and honor, and forced to lead a diminished and restricted existence.

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Artist: Chen Hongshou
Date: 1598–1652
Medium: album leaf, ink and color on silk
Dimensions: Overall: 30.2 x 26.7 cm (11 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Collection: Chinese Art

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