A sheer central peak fills most of the silk, rising behind a foreground of boulders and scrubby trees, with a thin waterfall on its right and a band of mist between near and far. At the bottom a mule train moves along the road, tiny against the rock. Possibly Fan Kuan's only surviving work, it set the ideal of monumental landscape for centuries.
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Fan Kuan's signature is hidden among the leaves at lower right, behind the mule train, and was only rediscovered in 1958. A temple roof shows through the trees on the cliff.
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