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The Wangchuan Villa
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About this work
Wangchuan Villa was the famous garden estate of the poet-painter Wang Wei (ca. 699-ca.761), who acquired the property around 740. Wang wrote twenty quatrains describing points of interest in the garden, and he illustrated the poetic mood of each site in a painting that ultimately became one of the most revered landscape scrolls in Chinese history. The composition provides a journey through a spectacular garden filled with sites designed to encourage quiet contemplation and at the same time suitable for entertaining visitors.
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Credit lineThe Wangchuan Villa. 17th century. Traditionally attributed to Guo Zhongshu (傳)郭忠恕 (910-977). National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
