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This print shows a center figure with three eyes and a red face. He is wearing a crown and sitting with a sword in hand. Four figures surround him, two on each side. They are dressed in robes and a headdress, each holding a different object such as a knife, staff, and plate. The foreground shows a smaller scene of farmers feeding horses.
Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Great King of Water, Grass and Horses
20th century
Gift of Willard A. and Marybelle B. Hanna
1989/2.140

Italian
Equestrian Statuette of Marcus Aurelius
Bequest of Henry C. Lewis
1895.10
A standing man in a magnificent crested helmet addresses a bearded man in bedraggled clothes sitting on the ground before the mouth of a large barrel. The latter figure turns his head to respond and extends his right hand toward the other man. A group of soldiers crowd around.
Salvator Rosa
Alexander Visiting Diogenes
1615 – 1673
Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
1964/2.109
Travelers are seen on a winding mountain pathway, among overlapping layers of mountains.<br />
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&quot;Goshun&nbsp;has&nbsp;powerfully&nbsp;evoked&nbsp;a&nbsp;winter&nbsp;landscape&nbsp;by&nbsp;reserving&nbsp;large&nbsp;areas&nbsp;of&nbsp;blank&nbsp;silk&nbsp;along&nbsp;with&nbsp;scattered touches of&nbsp;white&nbsp;to&nbsp;suggest&nbsp;snow.&nbsp;The&nbsp;heavy&nbsp;overcast&nbsp;sky&nbsp;and&nbsp;the cloudy&nbsp;washes&nbsp;amidst&nbsp;the&nbsp;bare&nbsp;limbs&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;trees&nbsp;suggest a gloomy&nbsp;atmosphere&nbsp;appropriate&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;theme.&nbsp;The mounted figures&nbsp;and&nbsp;attendants&nbsp;are&nbsp;proceeding&nbsp;along&nbsp;the&nbsp;road towards a&nbsp;mountain&nbsp;pass.&nbsp;Their&nbsp;casual&nbsp;demeanor&nbsp;belies&nbsp;the&nbsp;ordeal through&nbsp;which&nbsp;they&nbsp;have&nbsp;passed.&quot;<br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-56596195-7fff-8d60-d089-a3e5d66935e9">Adams, Celeste, and Paul Berry. <em>Heart, Mountains, and Human Ways: Japanese Land
Matsumura Goshun
The Road to Shu
1767 – 1832
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1970/2.152
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