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Hanging scroll of a robed scholar and two attendants walking past tall bamboo beside a rocky cliff and stream.

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This hanging scroll, titled Philosopher and Bamboo and attributed to Ma Yuan, shows a robed scholar walking a rocky path beside tall bamboo stalks, accompanied by two attendants. A winding stream and jagged cliffs fill the lower left, rendered in subdued ink tones against a warm ochre ground.

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