Artwork Details
10-1/2 x 11-7/8 in. (image) 46-1/2 x 17-3/4 in. (overall)
Dynasty3 seals: Lu Shih shuping; Lu Zhi zhi yin; Bai yuan zhenwan
Accession NumberPurchased to complement the Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese art through the bequest of Mrs. Enid Goodrich and the support of Lilly Endowment Inc.
CopyrightAsian Art (Chinese and other Asian)
Color PaletteWang Boyuan (20th cent. Shanghai); Wong Baoxi (father of Harold Wong). James Freeman; purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2004.
水仙梅石
Although his extant paintings are mostly panoramic landscapes, Lu Zhi’s contemporaries praised his flower paintings. Before his time, flower paintings were invariably depicted in a rather shallow setting, either isolated against a blank background or at most accompanied by a nearby rock. Here, for the first time in history, Lu has depicted flowers—narcissus—within a deep landscape setting. The waterfall to the left, appearing small in the distance, is joined to the foreground by the stream that flows to the right of the plum tree.
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