AT-00000972
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Scholar Playing a Qin 弹琴折扇
by Cheng Jiasui
Inscriptions
Inscription and seal (Meng-yang, zi) at upper left
Exhibition history
SOD 1298: China Institute, New York, NY for exhibition: "The Chinese Painter as Poet" from 9/14/2000 - 12/17/2000.
Publications
Stephen Little, “Chinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Arts of Asia, vol. 29, no. 3 (1999): 55, fig. 15. Jonathan Chaves, The Chinese Painter as Poet [Exh. cat.] (New York: China Institute, 2000): no. 17.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Cheng Jiasui (Chinese, 1565–1643)
- Date
- 1632
- Medium
- Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper
- Dimensions
- Upper width between top corners: W.: 51 cm (20 1/8 in.); Width between lower corners: W.: 22.3 cm (8 13/16 in.); Rib: H.: 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.); Mat size: 40.7 × 63.5 cm (16 × 25 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- album leaf
- Style
- Chinese (culture or style)
- Place
- China
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 1941.1031
Provenance
Ton Ying and Company, New York
More by Cheng Jiasui in museum collections
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