Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right)

In the pictureTwo hanging scrolls mounted in pale green silk hang side by side. The left one shows mountains rising through mist with a temple below; the right, mountains by the water and a broad, open lake. Using only gradations of ink, the near mountains are dark and the distant ones faint, and each painting itself is about 90 cm tall.

BackgroundThe pair brings together "Evening Bell from a Mist-Shrouded Temple" and "Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting" from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. An Gyeon, who painted Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land under King Sejong, was the foremost painter of the Joseon dynasty; many paintings bear his name, but securely attributed works are extremely rare, so these scrolls too are regarded as "attributed to An Gyeon." Erasing the distance with mist and building up rocks with short brushstrokes are characteristic of fifteenth-century landscapes of the An Gyeon school.

Puzzle tipBoth scrolls are in one photograph, so the pale green pieces of the mounting take up half the picture. Fit the dark mountain pieces of the two paintings first to set their positions, then fill in the mounting pieces using the patterned bands at top and bottom and the black pieces of the scroll rods as guides. 48 pieces is about right.