Vertical scroll-mounted painting with mountainous landscape decoration, attributed to Yang Jin-杨晋 (1644-1728), China, 18th century Painting, ink and polychrome on silk depicting part of what appears to be a small temple nestled atop a mountain surrounded by trees, while below flows serenely a stream also surrounded by trees and rocks. The painter used green and blue colors typical of a style of shan shui painting known as qing lü shan shui - 青緑山水 - "blue and green water and mountain". It is signed on the right in the bottom third: 七十老人杨晋冩 - Qi shi laoren yang Jin xie - "painted by Yang Jin an old man of 70 years". At the top left is a signed calligraphy text of 墨井道人吴歷 - Mo Jing Dao Ren Wu Li*, this is an excerpt of a poem from "The Spring with Peach Blossoms", a poem by Tao Yuanming (陶渊明, 365-427) : 玉山佳處列芙蓉，咫尺桃源路萬重。此境不知誰領會，年年花雨白雲封。- Yu shan jia chu lie fu ring - Zhi chi tao yuan lu wan chong - Ci jing bu zhi shui ling hui - Nian nian hua yu bai yun feng. - Jade Mountain is a beautiful place where the hibiscus blooms, the road to the Peach Blossom Spring is so close and so far to reach. I don't know who will understand this place, but every year the flowers fall like rain, and close behind the white clouds." Then follows the inscription: 右杨君子隺写此畫为竹坣老先生六旬寿属. - You Yang jun Zihe xie ci hua wei Zhu Tang lao xian sheng liu xun shou shu - "This painting was made by Mr. Yang Zi He for the sixtieth birthday of Mr. Zhu Tang". Two other inscriptions are calligraphed in black on the closed scroll: 杨子隺青緑山水 - Yang Zihe qing lü shan shui - "water and mountain (shanshui) painting by Yang Zihe". 松泉氏重装 - Song Quan Shi chong zhuang - "reassembled (in the sense of reassembling the scroll silks) by Song Quan Shi". Sight size : 167 x 49 cm Small worm holes in the lower right corner. Yang Jin was a talented painter of the Qing period, specializing in landscapes, flowers, birds, calligraphy and inscriptions. He studied with renowned masters, including Wang Hui, and developed a distinctive style characterized by rich, bright colors, great attention to detail, and skillful use of light and shadow effects. His works were widely appreciated and collected during his lifetime, and he is now considered one of the great masters of Chinese painting in the Qing period. His works are held in museums around the world, including the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the Imperial Palace Museum in Beijing and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Wu Li brush name: Mojing (or Mo Jing Dao Ren) is a Chinese landscape painter, poet and calligrapher from Changshu, Jiangsu province. He was born around 1632, and died in 1718 in Shanghai. 十八世纪 杨晋款青绿山水吴历题字绢本立轴