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Woman Fantasizing
by Leng Mei
Exhibition history
Berkeley, CA, Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting, September 25 - December 22, 2013, cat. 23. Ming and Ching Exhibition, August - October 1964
Publications
Janes Cahill, Sarah Handler, Julia M. White, Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting (University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2013), cat. 23, pp. 104-105. Archives of Asian Art, 1966, p. 76, 95-96.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Leng Mei / Chinese, c. 1700/1750
- Date
- Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662–1722)
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 115.6 × 66.1 cm (45 1/2 × 26 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Style
- Chinese (culture or style)
- Place
- China
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection
- Accession no.
- 1966.479
Provenance
The Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000850
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