清, 朱耷 (八大山人), 山水圖, 冊, Landscape album, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1699, China, Album of twelve leaves; ink and color on paper, Image (each) : 7 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (18. 7 x 23. 2 cm), Paintings, Bada Shanren (Zhu Da) (Chinese, 1626?1705), A scion of a branch of the Ming imperial family, Bada Shanren became a 'crazy' Buddhist monk, feigning deafness in order to escape persecution after the Ming dynasty fell to Manchu conquest in 1644. Like his cousin Shitao (Zhu Ruoji), he became an extraordinary painter, known for an expessionist calligraphic style