Description

Japanese Nanga sumi-e ink scroll painting on silk depicting a scene of two men in a boat entitled “Water Cloud Mountain Pavilion”. A scholar and a young man sit in a boat, the scholar has an open book, the young man, a pole. Between them is a handled box. A jagged out cropping of rock rises from the water where stunted trees stretch their branch over the water. River grasses and rocks fill the foreground, a few birds fly over the pair in the boat, and in the distance is a faint outline of a mountain range. Dated 1832 and signed Tani Buncho (1763-1840).

Dated 1832 and signed Tani Buncho (1763-1840)

Size of painting: 50 1/2″ high x 24 1/2″ wide

Size of scroll: 77 1/2″ high x 27 1/4″ wide (29 1/2″ wide including scroll ends)