Lan Ying
China, 1585­c. 1664
Autumn Clearing in the Misty Woods (from album
Landscapes in the Styles of Ancient Masters, 
one leaf from album of eight leaves)
Late Ming or early Qing dynasty, dated 1642
Ink and color on paper
30.5 x 40.6 cm
Samuel M. Nickerson Fund, 1958.395

This page is from an album of paintings by Lan Ying, who created each page in the style of an earlier Chinese master. This landscape is one of the purest examples of the traditional Chinese method of painting in simple washes of ink, with a few broad brush strokes to indicate details. Can you see a mountain, a cloud, and banks of fog? A house?