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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.
The painting forms that Xia Gui used most often were the album leaf and the hand scroll.1
- Album Leaves: Most of the artist's surviving works are in this format, which often appeared as square or nearly square sheets, though some were round or oblate, indicating they were originally mounted on fans.2
- Hand Scrolls: Xia Gui was also a master of the horizontal scroll, which allowed for the depiction of continuous panoramas, such as in his renowned work Pure and Remote View of Streams and Mountains.12
While he occasionally produced hanging-scroll compositions, these are considered less common in his body of work.2