Wang Meng: Scholar in a Pavilion Under Trees
Scholar in a Pavilion Under Trees, ink and slight color on album leaf by Wang Meng, mid-14th century, Yuan dynasty; in the Mrs. A. Dean Perry Collection, Cleveland, Ohio.
Wang Meng
Chinese painter
Wang Meng (born 1308, Wuxing [now Huzhou], Zhejiang province, China—died 1385) was a Chinese painter who is placed among the group later known as the Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty (1206–1368), although, being in the second generation of that group, he had a more personal style that was less based upon the emulation of ancient masters. Wang was a grandson of another famous Yuan dynasty painter, Zhao Mengfu, whose wife (Guan Daosheng, Wang’s grandmother)...
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