signed SHOUPING, inscribed, and with one seal of the artist ink and color on silk, hanging scroll Yun Shouping (1633-1690), was a major Chinese artist of the early Qing dynasty.He is grouped among the “Six Masters”of the early Qing period.He and these other artists continued the orthodox tradition of painting, following the great codifications of the painter and art theoretician Dong Qichang. Yun Shouping is generally associated with the painting of flowers, usually in a “boneless”manner that emphasizes washes instead of lines.Yun earned the respect of both his contemporaries and later generations as an appropriate representative of the school of“literati painting”.