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Autumn foliage and birds
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A magpie is perched atop a tree to which a few sparse autumn leaves still cling. Two songbirds sit on the thorns below. The composition of this unsigned painting is based on Song dynasty (906-1279) conventions, but on the whole it is too open and loosely organized to be an exact copy. The relatively tight, descriptive brushwork dates stylistically to the Yuan (1279-1368) or early Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAutumn foliage and birds. 14th-15th century. Formerly attributed to Cui Bai (active mid- to late 11th century). National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
