An Old Man Walking by a Stream, with Distant Mountains

• Artist: Wu Li
• Medium: Ink and color on paper
• Geographical Location: China
• Dates: 1706
• Dynasty: Qing Dynasty
• Dimensions: image: 50 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (128.9 x 34.3 cm) mount: 22 3/4 x 100 in. (57.8 x 254 cm)
• Markings: Inscribed with a poem, with two seals of the artist and five deals of various collectors.
• Signature: Signed: "Mojing daoren Wu Li"
• Inscriptions: "Lonely old trees lean on a riverbank. new wabes hit the foot of rocks. Distant mountains hold the sunset, there is nobody in the autumn shadow of a thatched pavilion."
• Collection: Asian Art
• Museum Location: Brooklyn Museum, BMA, 6H4, 37
• Accession Number: 1990.71
• Image: 1990.71_PS6.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, Nov 30, 2010

Catalogue Description:
Four colophons on the mounting brocade; one by Guo Ling (1767-1831), and one by Wu Rongguang (1759-1834). Landscape in the Ni Zan (1301-1374) style, depicting an old man walking by a stream in the middle ground, with a pavilion under trees and distant mountains in the background. Dated "A Winter month of the year bingxu (1706)." Condition: cracks in the painting, but stable.