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Cheng Zhidao
Qianlong-era court landscape painter who co-painted the Qing Court Version of the Qingming scroll and the Skating on the Ice scroll
A desk holds an unrolled sheet bearing three bold black ink strokes, with a rack of many brushes above it, a stone ink slab and ink stick, a porcelain bowl, a red lacquer box, a dish of red seal paste and a paperweight; a small seated figure shows through a round window onto bamboo.
Also known as Zi Youchuan
Cheng Zhidao was a Qing court painter. The National Palace Museum in Taipei records his courtesy name as Youchuan and his home as Wu county in Jiangsu, and says he served in the Qianlong painting academy, painting landscapes in the Loudong manner of Wang Yuanqi and copying figures after Ding Yunpeng. In 1736 he joined Chen Mei, Sun Hu, Jin Kun and Dai Hong in painting the Qing Court Version of Along the River During the Qingming Festival, and the Taipei museum also holds his copy of Ding Yunpeng's Luohan. The Palace Museum in Beijing credits its scroll Skating on the Ice to Jin Kun, Cheng Zhidao, Fulong'an and others. His dates are unknown.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; active in the early Qianlong reign (joint work dated 1736)