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{{Short description|Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, poet and physician}}
[[File:Le Mont Hua par Wang Lü.jpg|thumb|Mount Hua by the Chinese painter Wang Lü (1332-1383), album sheet, ink and light colour on paper, Ming dynasty. Its dimensions in centimetres are: 34.5x50.5. Of the forty executed, only eleven remain in two preserved in the Shanghai Museums and the Imperial Palace Museum in Beijing.]]
'''Wang Lü''' ({{zh|t=王履|p=Wáng Lǚ}}; {{circa}} 1332–?) was a [[Chinese people|Chinese]] [[Landscape painting|landscape painter]], [[calligrapher]], [[Chinese poetry|poet]] and [[physician]] who was active during the [[Ming dynasty]] (1368&ndash;1644). His specific date of death is unknown.
Wang was born in [[Kunshan]] in the [[Jiangsu]] province.<ref name="chinaweb">{{cite web|url=http://www.china-on-site.com/pages/painter/1066.php|title=Wáng Lǚ Brief Biography|accessdate=2008-07-09}}</ref> His style name was 'Andao' (安道 Āndào "peaceful way/path") and his [[sobriquet]]s were 'Jisou and Baodu laoren' (畸叟 jī sǒu "odd old gentleman", and 抱獨老人/抱独老人 bào dú lào rén "old man embraced by solitude"). Wang's painting followed the style of [[Xia Gui]]. Some of his works included:
* ''Album Leaf Paintings of [[Mount Hua|HuaShan]]''
* ''Shu Hui Album'' - twenty-one pieces
* ''Yi Yun Tong'' - one hundred volumes
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