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Which early Xia Gui painting shows two men watching a waterfall from a house?

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Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. — Xia Gui *Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains*, detail of hand scroll in ink and paper by Xia Gui, early 13th century (Southern Song); in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

The painting that is considered the stylistically earliest among the signed, reliable works of Xia Gui is a fan-shaped album leaf held in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. This work depicts two men in a house situated in a valley, gazing out at a waterfall.1