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Moonlit River Landscape with Figures
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The landscape in this painting is based on a story by the 9th-century poet Bai Juyi. One chilly autumn evening, while on a ferry, the poet heard music from another boat. Enchanted, he asked the musician to come on board and play for him. If you do not know this story, you would simply see an ordinary landscape with a harbor on a river.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMoonlit River Landscape with Figures. c. 1750 - c. 1785. Guan Xining. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
