Title
Lotuses, Insects, and Birds, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.
Caption
Lotuses, Insects, and Birds, 1800s. Pairs of herons, kingfishers, and dragonflies punctuate a profusion of lotus in this composition that, given the orientation of the herons and the clustering of motifs in the left-hand side of the work, may have once been the left painting of a pair. Presently identified as being by the hand of a Korean artist, the painting has a stylistic affinity with Chinese Piling school paintings. Such paintings are characterized by their bird-and-flower or insect-and-flower subjects as well as by their lack of contour lines, a technique called the "boneless" method.
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM19F92_221
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
36,0Mb (2,9Mb) / 8,4in x 16,7in / 2518 x 5000 (300dpi)