LANDSCAPE

Landscape

 

By Jiang Dalai

Qing dynasty, 1809, China

Important Art Object

Ink and light color on silk,96,6x 43.0cm

 

Jiang Dalai was born in Lin'an (Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province). He visited Japan several times from 1804, and taught painting to Hidaka Tetsu-o, Kinoshita Itsuun and Sugai Baikan during his stay in Nagasaki, and greatly influenced Japanese nanga painters of the late Edo period including Nukina Kaioku and Hine Taizan. Althoughhis name is not mentioned in Chinese painting history, he is counted as one of four great foreign painters who visited Japan.

 The artist depicted the landscape the in bird's eye view style with autumntint leaves in the foreground to suggest the season, and a stream with clusters of"

Small houses along it flowing through low mountains in the middle ground up to the distant mountains in the background. The surface is rendered gently in a lighter shade of ink using a dry brush.  the painting shows moderate space construction with comparatevely low mountains.