Artist: Zhang Wo (?-ca. 1356)

Date: Yuan (1271-1368)

Dimensions: Height 28.0 cm, Width 602.4 cm

Material: Ink on paper

Gift of Shen Tongyue et al.

• Object Type：
  • PAINTINGS
• Location：
  • Chinese Painting Gallery
• Tag：
  • nine songs handscroll zhang wo yuan ink paper

Zhang Wo (?-ca. 1356), is also known by his zi (designated name) Shuhou and his hao (literary name) Zhenqisheng. His ancestral home was in Huainan in Jiangsu. He resided in Hangzhou in Zhejiang. He specialized in line drawing figure painting following Li Gonglin's tradition, and was also accomplished in landscape painting. This handscroll, executed in line drawing technique, may be a copy after Li Gonglin's Illustrations of the Nine Songs of the Northern Song dynasty. Each section is followed by the seal-script inscription by Wu Rui (1298-1355) in the sixth year (1346) of the Zhizheng era.