Qian Gu
Qian • Illustration — Qian Gu, Landscape Handscroll, ca. 1556, ink on paper, 27.7 × 872 cm. Collection of Brooklyn Museum Qian Gu (Ch'ien Ku; ca.
Also recorded as Qingshi · Shubao Qian · Shubao · Gu Qian
Qian Gu
Qian Gu · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1980 · Public domain (CC0, Met Open Access)
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Qian • Illustration — Qian Gu, Landscape Handscroll, ca. 1556, ink on paper, 27.7 × 872 cm. Collection of Brooklyn Museum Qian Gu (Ch'ien Ku; ca.
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(1508-unknown) was a Chinese landscape painter during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). His date of death is unknown, but is traditionally given as around 1578. Qian was born in Changzhou in the Jiangsu province. His style name was 'Shubao' and his sobriquet was 'Qingshi'. Qian's painting used a soft but firm style. Qian often used subjects found in his observations around the south of the Yangzi River. Qian was a client of the literatus Wang Shizhen (1526–90), and frequently spent time at Wang's home in Taicang in his later years. In 1572 Qian painted an album of scenes along the Grand Canal while accompanying Wang Shizhen on a journey to the capital at Beijing.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Work by Qian Gu is recorded in the collections of Ashmolean Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art and Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Fisherman's Joy, 1572, by Qian Gu
Qian Gu · The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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1508
Qian Gu born at Suzhou.
1572
Qian Gu died.
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- Dictionnaire Bénézit. Dictionnaire des peintres,sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs. éditions Gründ. 11. 13440. 1999. 2700030214.
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