近代 倪田 橋頭隱士 扇面Scholar on the Bridge
dated 1901 · Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
Dimensions : 6 3/8 x 19 5/8 in. (16.2 x 49.8 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
Ni Tian successfully imitated Ren Yis popular style, ensuring that a second generation of Shanghai patrons could still buy Ren Yi-style works. The freely impressionistic foliage in this fan converts a conventional image of a scholar in a landscape into a fashionable fin-de-siècle production. Layers of built-up ink in the foreground trees project the branches forward in the manner of a spatial experiment undertaken by Ren Yi.
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近代 倪田 橋頭隱士 扇面Scholar on the Bridge (dated 1901) by Ni Tian, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Ni Tian
Ni Tian (Chinese: 倪田; 1855–1919), born as Baotian, courtesy name Mogeng, sobriquet as Modaoren and Biyuehezhu, was a Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty and Republic Period.
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