Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 8

early 1650s

Fan Qi

Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616-aft 1694)

Chinese Art

Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 8, early 1650s. Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616-aft 1694). Album leaf, ink and color on silk; image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1975.22.8 The rock changes from ocher to green deepening into azurite blue accented with delicate dots of malachite green.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Fan Qi
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: album leaf, ink and color on silk
Medium: album, leaf, ink, color, silk
Dimensions: Image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: Artist seal: Fan Qi 樊圻. Poem by Li Bing 李炳 (17th century): Maple leaves drift in the wind, the autumn gusts bracing,/ Hibiscus flowers steeped with water, the evening breeze light./ The moonlight's slanting beams shine upon dreaming lovers./ No wonder that pair of fowl should dream of the absent partners. Remark: The poem is an allusion to a Ming Play, Yuan Yang Meng 鴛鴦夢, by Ye Xiaowan 葉小纨 (c. 1613-c. 1657), in which two separated lovers can meet each other only in their dreams.
Departments: Chinese Art
Accession Number: 1975.22.8
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Exhibitions: Year in Review: 1975, Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982)., Main Asian Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003)., Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 7-July 7, 2015).
Rights Statement: CC0