1235 (ca.), Ma Lin, Landscape with great pine -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Like his father Ma Yuan (whose paintings are on view nearby), Ma Lin worked primarily in small formats, especially fans and albums. In this work, Ma Lin followed his father's compositional approach: filling one corner of the composition, he left the upper left of the silk surface untouched save for the full moon that illuminates the scene. While the image can stand on its own, it might originally have been part of a series of related images in a multi-leaf album.
1235 (ca.), Ma Lin, Landscape with great pine -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Like his father Ma Yuan (whose paintings are on view nearby), Ma Lin worked primarily in small formats, especially fans and albums. In this work, Ma Lin followed his father's compositional approach: filling one corner of the composition, he left the upper left of the silk surface untouched save for the full moon that illuminates the scene. While the image can stand on its own, it might originally have been part of a series of related images in a multi-leaf album.