Landscape with hut and two trees, Yi Fujiu

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Yi Fujiu, Landscape with hut and two trees
Yi Fujiu, Landscape with hut and two trees
Yi Fujiu
Landscape with hut and two trees
early 1700s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Yi Fujiu
1698–after 1747
Landscape with hut and two trees, early 1700s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Where object was made: China
Material/technique: ink; paper
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 35.1 x 27 cm
Mount Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 104.3 x 47.5 cm
Roller Dimensions (Width x Diameter): 55 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 13/16 x 10 5/8 in
Mount Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 41 1/16 x 18 11/16 in
Roller Dimensions (Width x Diameter): 21 5/8 in
Credit line: Gift from the Ssu-ch'uan-ko Collection
Accession number: 1994.0078
Not on display
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Archive Label 2003: Yi Fujiu (Japanese I Fukyu), also known as Yi Hai, is not recorded in pre-modern Chinese sources, and his paintings are known only in Japan. Coming from a merchant background, however, he was educated in literati art as is evident in his surviving works. Between 1720 and 1747, he made a series of business trips to the major Japanese trading port of Nagasaki. This landscape follows closely the style of the Chinese Yuan dynasty artist Ni Zan (1301-1374). The austere composition and the bland brushwork suggest the scholar's self-restraint. Yi Fujiu's farewell poem to a friend, inscribed above the landscape, adds a mood of parting to the painting.