Promenading Ladies

Maker(s)
Artist: Formerly attributed to Zhou Fang (傳)周昉 (ca. 730-ca. 800)
Historical period(s)
Probably Yuan dynasty, 14th century ?
Medium
Ink and color on silk
Dimensions
H x W (image): 109.4 x 50.7 cm (43 1/16 x 19 15/16 in)
Geography
China
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1916.50
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Painting
Type

Hanging scroll (mounted on panel)

Keywords
banana tree, China, garden, parrot, woman, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)
Provenance

To 1916
Lai-Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]

From 1916 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]

From 1920
The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1024, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. 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] See note 1.

[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.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Lai-Yuan & Company (C.L. Freer source) ca. 1915-April 1921

Published References
  • Thomas Lawton. "画中人 上海书画出版社." Chinese Figure Painting. Shanghai, China. .
  • Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. Chinese Ladies in the Istanbul Albums. no. 1. fig. 151.
  • Suzuki Kei. Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku [Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Painting]. 5 vols., Tokyo, 1982-1983. vol. 1: p. 252.
  • Toh Sugimura. The Chinese Impact on Certain Fifteenth Century Persian Miniature Paintings from the Albums (Hazine Library nos. 2153, 2154, 2160) in the Topkapı Sarayı Museum, Istanbul. Ann Arbor. pl. 18.
  • Otto Fischer. Chinesische Landschaftsmalerei., 3rd ed. Berlin and Vienna. pl. 27.
  • Osvald Siren. Chinese Paintings in American Collections. Annales du Musee Guimet. Bibliotheque d'art. Nouvelle serie. II Paris and Brussels, 1927-1928. pl. 122.
  • Craig Clunas, Julie Fry. Chinese Painting and Its Audiences. Bollingen Series XXXV, vol. 61 Princeton, New Jersey. p. 130, fig. 4.21.
  • Thomas Lawton. Chinese Figure Painting. Exh. cat. Washington, 1973. cat. 54, pp. 208-211.
  • Ellen Mae Johnston Laing. Chinese Palace-Style Poetry and the Depiction of a Palace Beauty. vol. 72, no. 2, June 1990. p. 293, pl. 13.
Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
Google Cultural Institute
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