Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring

{{Short description|Painting by Ma Yuan}}

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{{Infobox artwork

| title = Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring

| image_file = Ma Yuan Walking on Path in Spring.jpg

| image_size = 300px

| alt = Willows grow on the bank of a stream, orioles chirp, and a scholar in white robes wearing a translucent stiff cap walks in solitude, followed by servant boy carrying a lute.

| type = ink on silk

| artist = Ma Yuan

| year = Southern Song dynasty

| height_metric = 27.4

| width_metric = 43.1

| city = Taipei

| museum = National Palace Museum

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Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring ({{zh|山徑春行}}) is a painting by Chinese artist Ma Yuan ({{Circa|1160}}-1225). It is painted on an album leaf, which also contains Emperor Ningzong of Song's poem inscribed in the upper right corner.{{Cite web |url=http://painting.npm.gov.tw/npm_public/System/View.jsp?ObjectID=21211&type=1 |title=National Palace Museum |accessdate=18 October 2012}}

Mountain Path is done in Ma Yuan's "One-Corner Ma" style, where most of the painting's imagery is in one corner.

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