Pines and Clouds on Spring Peaks
A leading painter of the Orthodox School of the Early Qing, Wang Yuanqi created this painting for his mentor Meiweng in the style of the Yuan landscape master Huang Gongwang (1269–1354). The technical skill with which the painting was created suggests that Wang was well trained in the traditional way of using ink and colors to render rivers and mountains.
His applications of blue, green, and brown washes over the ink were influenced by the longstanding “blue-and-green” landscape tradition. Wang’s inscription reads:
Pines and clouds on spring peaks. Modeled after Huang Dachi [Huang Gongwang] when serving in Changchun Garden, in the spring of the wuzi year [1708], during the reign of the Kangxi emperor. For old master Meiweng. Please correct my brushwork, Wang Yuanqi.
