The Woodcutter of Luofu (1366): Art, History and Details

The Woodcutter of Luofu (1366) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Chen Ruyan (Chinese, c. 1331–1371).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This landscape illustrates the traditionalism of Chinese painting: while the brush manner is novel, the composition is based on early Song dynasty (960-1127) models. The soft raveling brushstrokes and lumpy rock shapes are characteristic of the new 14th-century stylistic expression.

Object facts

• Title: The Woodcutter of Luofu
• Date: 1366
• Creator attribution: Chen Ruyan (Chinese, c. 1331–1371)
• Culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: Hanging scroll; ink on silk
• Dimensions: Painting: 107.2 x 53.6 cm (42 3/16 x 21 1/8 in.); Overall with knobs: 253.5 x 88.7 cm (99 13/16 x 34 15/16 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1964.156

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry

Further reading listed by the museum

• Gu, Fu 顧復. Ping sheng zhuang guan 平生壯觀. Shanghai: Shanghai ren min mei shu chu ban she, 1962.
• Lu, Xinyuan 陸心源. Rang li guan guo yan lu 穰梨館過眼錄. Wuxing: Lu shi, 1891.
• Ferguson, John C 福開森. Li dai zhu lu hua mu 歷代著錄畵目. Nanjing: Chin-ling University, Zhong guo wen hua yan jiu suo 金陵大學中國文化硏究所, 1934.

View the collection record

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