- Provenance
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Hsiang Yuan-Pien (1525-1590) [1]
To 1916
Pang Yuanji (1864-1949), Shanghai [2]From 1916 to 1970
Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), New York, NY, Washington, DC, and Mt. Kisco, NY, purchased from Pang Yuanji in 1916 [3]From 1970
Freer Gallery of Art, bequeathed by Agnes E. Meyer in 1970 [4]Notes:
[1] The Ming collectorâs, Hsiang Yuan-pienâs seal is located on the painting, see Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition (Washington: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973), p. 56, no. 25 (ill.).
[2] The painting was published and illustrated in Pang Yuanjiâs catalogue, Antique Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by Pâang Lai Châen (Tang Wudai Song Yuan minghua), vol. 1 (Shanghai, Privately published by Pang Yuanji, 1916), no. 20: âHsĂŒ Toa Ning, Listening to the Pines at the Hermitage.â Pang Yuanjiâs collector seal is located on the painting.
[3] In 1916 Pang Yuanji, with the assistance of dealers Pang Zanchen and Seaouke Yue, sent a group of paintings illustrated in Antique Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by Pâang Lai Châen catalogue to New York where they were shown to Charles Freer. See Ingrid Larsen, ââDonât Send Ming or Later Picturesâ: Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum,â Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), p. 23. Freer made a selection of twenty one paintings for his collection and advised the Meyers and Louisine Havemeyer with their acquisitions. Freerâs copy of the 1916 Pang catalogue includes pencil annotations indicating that this painting was purchased by Agnes E. Meyer.
[4] The painting is included in a codicil to Agnes E. Meyerâs will and testament, dated December 23, 1969, copy in object file
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Hsiang Yuan-Pien 1525-1590
Pang Yuanji 1864-1949
Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer (1875-1959) and (1887-1970)
- Published References
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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.
- Suiboku bijutsu taikei. 17 vols., Tokyo, 1973-1977. vol. 2: fig. 20.
- Pang Yuanji. Tang Wu dai Song Yuan ming hua: Wuxing Pang shi cang [Antique Famous Chinese Paintings: Collected by P'ang Lai Ch'en]. Shanghai. pl. 20.
- Chugoku bijutsu [Chinese Art in Western Collections]. 5 vols., Tokyo, 1972-1973. vol. 2: pl. 10.
- Thomas Lawton. Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat. Washington, 1971. cat. 25, pp. 56-57.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
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