Gentleman Viewing the Moon　

A scholar clad in white robe and accompanied by a page is gazing at the moon in the sky. Ma Yuan, the supposed artist, was a representative artist of the Southern Song Imperial Academy of Painting and he was most active during the Guangzong and Ningzong periods (1189–1224). Followers of the Ma Yuan school were famous for their one-sided diagonal composition style, in which motifs are clustered on a lower corner, leaving the rest of the paper unpainted to suggest a vast expanse of space.