Joy of Fishing, handscroll - frontispiece by Dong Qichang
Think of this scroll frontispiece as the ultimate VIP stamp of approval from the Ming Dynasty's most powerful art critic, Dong Qichang. The bold characters announce the work inside as the 'Fishing Joy Picture' by Jing Hao, a legendary Northern Song master known for monumental landscapes. Dong Qichang, who essentially wrote the rulebook on Chinese art history, added his 'authenticated' signature here to certify its greatness. Interestingly, Dong was known to attribute works to famous masters like Jing Hao to support his own theories about the 'Northern School' of painting, so this inscription is as much about Dong's influence as it is about the art itself.
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