19th century
Autumn Landscape
Lu YuanChinese, active early 19th century
Chinese literati often depicted their garden retreats, enjoying cultural life in solitude. Bamboo is the symbol of the scholar-bureaucrat because it bends, but does not break, in the wind. Fan paintings were often made for friends as parting gifts.
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