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During the reign of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1126), the imperial painting catalogue <I>Xuanhe huapu</I> described Li Gongnian’s paintings as \"like the shapes of objects appearing and disappearing in vast emptiness, hovering between existence and nothingness.\" This painting of mountains in a landscape filled with clouds and mist is the sole surviving authenticated work by him; it is signed and sealed on the rock outcrop beneath an overhanging cliff at the right.<I>\r\nWinter Evening Landscape</I> offers an &shy;important link between the monumental landscape style of the Northern Song and the intimacy of the Southern Song (1127–1279). In technique, the stipple strokes used on the mountains are a simplified version of the \"raindrop\" modeling strokes of the Northern Song painter Fan Kuan (ca. 960–1030). The foreground trees and rocks recall the tradition of \"dragon’s claw\" branches and \"devil’s face\" rocks associated with Li Cheng (919–967) and Guo Xi (ca. 1010–1090). The distant hills dissolving in soft and misty ink clearly anticipate Southern Song styles. Lyricism was a key note in landscape paintings of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and this winter scene with a faint celestial orb in the upper right evokes the poetic line: \"a winter sun slowly emerges through the mist.\" </P></SPAN>","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1115,"sortnumber":"1946  191y","published_date":"2026-02-11 09:50:34.641470","objectid":22886,"dimensions":"Painting: 129.6 x 48.3 cm. (51 x 19 in.)\r\nMount: 202.5 x 62.2 cm. (79 3/4 x 24 1/2 in.)","on_view":false}