Looking closely: Scholar-Recluse in Blue-Green Landscape
An invitation to spend a little longer with a single work.
Chen Hongshou, Scholar-Recluse in Blue-Green Landscape, 1633. The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
Start with what you see
Move slowly across this work. Notice the relationship between dense passages and quieter areas, and between a detail and the whole. A change of scale can change the way an image is read.
The work and its record
The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies the artist as Chen Hongshou and dates the work 1633. Its recorded medium is Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk. The linked collection record is our source for these details.
Our invitation is simple: compare your first impression with what you notice after a few minutes. The catalogue provides a point of reference; looking remains an open-ended encounter.
Sources & further reading
About this image+
- Image attribution
- Chen Hongshou, Scholar-Recluse in Blue-Green Landscape, 1633. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse, 1972. 1972.278.1. Public Domain / CC0.
- License
- CC0 ↗
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
