Traditionally attributed to Li Gonglin (傳)李公麟 (ca. 1049-1106) Search this
Medium:
Ink on paper
Dimensions:
H x W (image): 32.3 x 752.1 cm (12 11/16 x 296 1/8 in)
Type:
Painting
Origin:
China
Date:
13th century
Period:
Southern Song dynasty
Provenance:
To 1916
Pang Yuanji (1864-1949), Shanghai, China, to 1916 [1]
From 1916 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Pang Yuanji, through Pang Zanchen (1881-1951) and Seaouke Yue (You Xiaoxi) (late 19th-early 20th century), in New York, in 1916 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1139, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, P'ang Catalogue: Antique Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by P'ang Lai Ch'en. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.
[2] According to Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pg. 23 and pg. 37, note 118.
Larsen explains that Pang Zanchen (the younger brother of Pang Yuanji) and Seaouke Yue were tasked by Pang Yuanji with bringing his paintings to New York to show them to Charles Lang Freer. See also, Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1139, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Looking Out, Looking In: Art in Late Imperial China (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
Style in Chinese Landscape Painting: The Song Legacy (May 17 to October 26, 2014)
Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)
Chinese Calligraphy (April 18, 1977 to September 13, 1977)
Bicentennial Exhibition: Chinese Art (December 5, 1975 to November 10, 1976)
Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting, Gallery 1, 1955 (April 11, 1955 to December 12, 1955)
Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting, East Corridor (November 10, 1955 to February 25, 1956)
Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1947 (January 7, 1947 to April 11, 1955)
Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Paintings, 1924 (June 2, 1924 to March 14, 1931)
Chinese Panels and Scrolls (May 2, 1923 to June 2, 1924)
