Chinese Scholar Contemplating a Waterfall, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan, Two-panel folding screen; ink and gold paint on paper, Image: 61 3/4 x 68 3/8 in. (156.8 x 173.7 cm), Screens, Soga Shōhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781), This mountain landscape, in which the human presence is but a minor aspect of the vastness of nature, draws on an archetypal motif in East Asian art first formulated by Song-dynasty painters in the tenth century
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Chinese Scholar Contemplating, Waterfall, Edo period, 1615–1868, Japan, Two-panel folding screen, ink, gold paint, paper, Image, 61 3/4 x 68 3/8, 156.8 173.7 cm, Screens, Soga Shōhaku, Japanese, 1730–1781, mountain, landscape, human presence, minor aspect, vastness, nature, draws, archetypal motif, East Asian, art, first, formulated, Song-dynasty painters, tenth century
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