Mountain Studio under Pines

Maker(s)
Artist: Wang Shichang (1462-after 1531)
Historical period(s)
Ming dynasty, ca. 1525
School
Zhe School
Medium
Ink and color on silk
Dimensions
H x W (image): 185.4 x 102.8 cm (73 x 40 1/2 in)
Geography
China
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1916.95
On View Location
Currently not on view
Classification(s)
Painting
Type

Hanging scroll (mounted on panel)

Keywords
China, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), mountain
Provenance

To 1916
Li Wenqing (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1916 [1]

From 1916 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Li Wenqing, 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. 1267, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, LVC Catalogue, 1915, No. 44. 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
Li Wenqing (C.L. Freer source) ca. 1869-1931

Published References
  • unknown title. Washington, December 30, 1936. .
  • Photogravure Section. Washington, July 29, 1934. .
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  • Suzuki Kei. Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku [Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Painting]. 5 vols., Tokyo, 1982-1983. vol. 1: p. 252.
  • Chung-kuo shu hua [Chinese Painting]. Taipei. vol. 2: p. 49.
  • Suiboku bijutsu taikei. 17 vols., Tokyo, 1973-1977. vol. 2: pl. 74.
  • Chugoku bijutsu [Chinese Art in Western Collections]. 5 vols., Tokyo, 1972-1973. vol. 2: pl. 7.
  • Jacques Gernet. Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276. Daily Life Series; 7 London. pl. 15.
  • Osvald Siren. Gardens of China. New York. pl. 12.
  • William Cohn. Chinese Painting. London and New York. pl. 99.
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  • Sheldon Cheney. A World History of Art., 1st ed. New York. .
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  • Osvald Siren. Chinese Paintings in American Collections. Annales du Musee Guimet. Bibliotheque d'art. Nouvelle serie. II Paris and Brussels, 1927-1928. pl. 37.
  • Dr. John Alexander Pope, Thomas Lawton, Harold P. Stern. The Freer Gallery of Art. 2 vols., Washington and Tokyo, 1971-1972. cat. 53, vol. 1: p. 163.
  • Freer Gallery of Art. The Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington. p. 5.
  • Grace Dunham Guest, Archibald Gibson Wenley. Annotated Outlines of the History of Chinese Arts. Washington, 1949. p. 14.
  • unknown title. no. 3 Beijing. p. 19.
  • W. Aubrey Cartwright. Guide to Art Museums in the United States: East Coast, Washington to Miami., 1st ed. New York. p. 27.
  • Jacques Maritain. Things and the Creative Self. vol. 46, no. 2, February 1953. p. 54.
  • Yu Ogawa. "臥遊：中國山水畫的世界." Gayu: the World of Chinese Landscape Painitngs. p. 75.
  • Hiromitsu Ogawa. Dream Journey: The World of Chinese Landscape Painting. Tokyo. p. 75.
  • Agnes E. Meyer. The Charles L. Freer Collection. vol. 12, no. 2 Brooklyn, August 1927. p. 78.
  • Yu Leqi. A Problem of Attribution: A Rediscovered Chinese Landscape Painting in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Tome 72 - 2017 Paris, France. p. 158, fig. 5.
  • Eric Newton. The Arts of Man: An Anthology and Interpretation of Great Works of Art. Greenwich, Connecticut. p. 307, pl. 168.
Collection Area(s)
Chinese Art
Web Resources
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