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National Museum of Asian Art (Freer|Sackler)

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Ink drawing of two robed men on brown silk, one wearing a tall hat, with a toad and bamboo sprigs beside them.

Two male figures with a toad

Ink painting of dragons with bearded faces and claws swirling through dark, billowing clouds.

Dragons in clouds

Two songbirds perch on a branch of ripe orange persimmons and green leaves against a golden silk background.

Birds and fruit

Handscroll landscape showing a villa with pavilions among trees, backed by layered mountains and rocky crags on golden silk.

The Wangchuan Villa

Traditionally attributed to Guo Zhongshu

Painting of lavender flowers, white blossoms and green leaves on gold silk, with bees flying above them.

Bees hovering over flowers

Misty Chinese landscape painting with a pagoda on a cliff, pine trees, figures on a riverbank and a boat on the water.

Picnic on the Riverbank

Probably by Yuan Jiang, 1700

Ink landscape of five bare trees on a rocky promontory with distant hills, calligraphy and red seals above.

Five trees on a rocky promontory

Traditionally attributed to Ni Zan

Chinese handscroll painting of craggy mountains, pine trees, plum blossoms and robed figures beside a stream.

Landscape with Daoist immortals in the mountains

Hanging scroll of a dancer in red skirt performing before seated musicians in a garden with pines and rocks.

Dancer and musicians in a garden

Hanging scroll of two pheasants on a rock beneath blossoming plum branches, peonies and a magpie on gold-brown silk.

Pheasants and snow-covered plum blossoms

Ge Shouchang, 1790

Handscroll landscape with green mountains, willow trees, pavilions and a small boat on a river under an ochre sky.

Landscape in blue and green

Ink landscape handscroll showing misty mountains, willow trees, houses by a waterside, a footbridge and small walking figures

Houses at the waterside

Chinese handscroll showing fishermen in boats on a river, reeds in the foreground, and a herder riding a buffalo along rocky

Life on the river

Handscroll painting on silk of sparrows in flight and perched songbirds among bare branches and red berries.

Rabbits, birds, and flowers

Painting of a blue-headed songbird perched on a branch with yellow fruit and green leaves on a tan silk background.

Bird and fruit

Hanging scroll of a mountain landscape with a pine tree, a pavilion with seated figures, boats on a river, and travellers wit

The hall of scenic beauty 有美堂圖

Painting of blue birds flying among a peach branch with ripe red peaks and pink blossoms on a gold silk ground.

Birds among peach branches

Li Di, 1800

Painting of a songbird on a branch with ripe peaches, purple blossoms and green leaves on a golden silk background.

Bird, fruit, and flowers

Ink painting of scholars in robes gathered under a pine tree and rocks, one reading a handscroll.

Literary gathering

Handscroll painting of misty mountains, small pavilions and tree groves rising through fog, with red seals at right.

Misty mountains

Handscroll landscape of mountains, a trestle road with horsemen and a cart, bare trees and a rocky cliff.

Trestle roads in the mountains of Shu

Silk painting of sparrows on a perforated rock, with open-beaked fledglings on the ground below.

Sparrows feeding their young

Hanging scroll of four children playing beneath a willow tree with red blossoms and a garden rock in the foreground.

Four children under a willow tree

Handscroll of tiered palace pavilions among green mountains and golden clouds, with small figures on terraces and stairs.

The Peach Festival of the Queen Mother of the West

Ink landscape of a thatched hut with a seated figure, pine trees, rocks and bamboo beside a garden wall, with a red seal.

After Lu Hong's "Thatched Hut"

Traditionally attributed to Lu Hong

Hanging scroll of a misty mountain, pavilions and gnarled pines above calm water, with calligraphy at upper right.

Clear and chilly morning

Yuan Jiang, 1720

Hanging scroll of a misty mountain landscape with pavilions, a pine tree, boats on a river, and towering rock cliffs.

Retirement on the river, in the style of Li Tang

Li Yin, 1644

Handscroll painting of a robed figure leading a white horse with red tassel, with calligraphy and red seals on silk.

Central Asians presenting tribute horses

Traditionally attributed to Han Gan, 1700

Ink landscape of a moonlit mountain with a pavilion on its peak, village buildings at its base and bare trees.

Winter landscape: a moon-lit hill and buildings

Handscroll painting of gibbons in pine trees by a stream, with two cranes flying in the upper right.

Landscape with gibbons and cranes