Landscape in the Manner of Dong Yuan, mid 19th century, Nakabayashi Chikut?, Japanese, 1776 - 1853, 55 5/8 ¡Ñ 27 7/8 in. (141.29 ¡Ñ 70.8 cm) (image)84 1/2 ¡Ñ 35 1/4 in. (214.63 ¡Ñ 89.54 cm) (mount, without roller), Ink and light colors on silk, Japan, 19th century, Nanga artists were painters who admired Chinese literati paintings and studied them through both printed painting manuals and imported artworks, as they were prohibited from traveling to China. Nakabayashi Chikut? was a fourth generation nanga artist. He had many opportunities to study and copy Chinese painting at first hand through his connections to Kamiya Ten¡¦yu? (1710-1801), a wealthy merchant and collector of antique Japanese and Chinese painting. Chikuto?¡¦s studies allowed his own paintings to approach the original style of the Chinese masters like Dong Yuan (932-962).