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The Five Virtues
by Ren Yi
Inscriptions
Artist's inscription: 光緒乙未春, 上月上浣. 山陰任伯年 Artist's seals: Bonian 伯年 Ren Yi zhi yin 任頤之印 Collector's seals: 密亨利愛詩客夫婦所藏書畫 定海劉松父珍藏
Provenance
Florence Ayscough MacNair (1875-1942; born Weelock; also Florence Ayscough) and Harley Farnsworth MacNair (1891–1947), Shanghai, China, then Chicago; by descent to Harley Farnsworth MacNair, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 28, 1943.
Publications
Zaixin Hong, “Florence Ayscough: Pioneer Promoter of Modern Chinese Painting in America,” in Collectors, Collections and Collecting the Arts of China: Histories and Challenges, ed. Jason Steuber and Guolong Lai (University Press of Florida, 2014), 129, pl.5.8. Stephen Little, “Chinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Arts of Asia 29, no. 3 (May/June 1999): 59, fig. 21.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ren Yi (Chinese, 1840-1895)
- Date
- Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1895
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper
- Dimensions
- 185.9 × 97.2 cm (73 1/2 × 38 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Style
- Chinese (culture or style)
- Place
- China
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair Collection
- Accession no.
- 1943.133
More by Ren Yi in museum collections
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-00000998
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