China: 'Reading a Stele Concealed by Forest'. Li Cheng (919-967), mid-10th century

Li Cheng (Wade–Giles: Li Ch'eng) was a Chinese painter from Qingzhou (now part of Weifang, Shandong) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and early Song Dynasty. His ancestral lineage was with the Tang Dynasty imperial family, the Li family, which had fallen out of power in 907 with the collapse of the Tang Empire.

Li Cheng primarily portrayed Shandong area landscapes in his paintings.

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