Keywords: Wang Yuanqi -Wang Yuan-ch'i- - Free Spirits Among Streams and Mountains - Walters 35198 - View G.jpg When he painted this long handscroll in 1684 Wang Yuanqi Wang Yüan-ch'i the greatest orthodox master of the Qing Ch'ing dynasty had not yet developed the style for which he is best remembered Grounded in the lessons of his grandfather the artist Wang Shimin Wang Shih-min he aimed in his own way to make a work both as weighty and as free as that which was regarded as the greatest of Chinese handscrolls Huang Gongwang's Huang Kung-wang's Dwelling in the Fuchun Fu-ch'un Mountains of 1350 1684 ink paper H 13 x L 279 7/8 in 33 x 710 9 cm accession number 35 198 3491 James Freeman date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum 1994 by purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the W Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund 1994 Free Spirits among Streams and Mountains A Chinese Handscroll by Wang Yuan-ch'i 1645-1715 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1996 place of origin China Walters Art Museum license 2D Free Spirits Among Streams and Mountains Wang Yuanqi |