Nymph of the Luo River

This narrative handscroll illustrates a poem of doomed love between a poet and a river goddess, figures drifting through stylized hills and water. It survives in later copies of a legendary early master.

Nymph of the Luo River

Gu Kaizhi (attributed)

  • Datec. 380 (later copy)
  • MovementChinese painting
  • WherePalace Museum, Beijing
  • RegionEast Asia · China