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Landscape with gibbons and cranes
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Landscape with gibbons and cranes

Formerly attributed to Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552) · 18th century · Ink and color on silk

From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Depicting, in the "blue and green style," two cranes, and a total of eighteen gibbons (black, white, gray and brown). Among the gibbons are a mother and her children. They are distributed in a wooded landscape, with pine trees, flowering trees, and pink bamboo, and with a stream running through it and two waterfalls. Some of the gibbons are climbing pine trees, picking berries, catching fleas, and forming a chain from a branch to catch a crab. Forged signature, two seals.

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Credit lineLandscape with gibbons and cranes. 18th century. Formerly attributed to Qiu Ying 仇英 (ca. 1494-1552). National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.

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