Gong Xian 龔賢
painter · Qing China · 1618–1689
A painter who took no office after the fall of the Ming and lived by his brush in Nanjing. Known for landscapes built up in layer upon layer of ink, he is counted first among the Eight Masters of Jinling. His courtesy name was Banqian.
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1690s
Things that cannot go into a painting: pigs, money, and nasty young men.
物之不可入畫者，豬也，阿堵物也，惡少年也。A comment attached to this passage in Dream Shadows
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