清 王翬 等 康熙南巡圖 （卷三: 濟南至泰山） 卷 The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai
datable to 1698 · Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions Image: 26 3/4 in. x 45 ft. 8 3/4 in. (67.9 x 1393.8 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1979
In 1689 the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662 – 1722), a Manchu whose forebears had conquered China in 1644, made a grand tour to consolidate his authority over southern China. The renowned landscapist Wang Hui was commissioned to record the journey in a series of twelve oversize handscrolls. This scroll, the third in the set, highlights the emperor’s visit to Mount Tai, China’s “Sacred Peak of the East.” Although Wang based his design on maps and woodblock prints — he never visited the mountain — he also connected specific sites with imaginary landscape passages inspired by classical precedents and employed a traditional “blue-and-green” palette to underscore the emperor’s beneficent rule.
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清 王翬 等 康熙南巡圖 （卷三: 濟南至泰山） 卷 The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai (datable to 1698) by Wang Hui, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Wang Hui
Wang Hui (1632–1717) was a Chinese landscape painter, one of the Four Wangs. He, and the three other Wangs, dominated orthodox art in China throughout the late Ming and early Qing periods. Of the Four Wangs, Wang Hui is considered the best-known today.
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