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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Music-Making in a Pavilion
(China )
This painting is intended to suggest an earlier ideal time: the landscape is painted in the "blue-and-green" style that dates back to the Tang [T'ang] Dynasty (7th-10th centuries), and the harp the lady plays is an ancient instrument. Beside the man lies a zither, the noble instrument of the leisured scholar. Qiu Ying's [Ch'iu Ying] original painting is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Provenance
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
Exhibitions
| 2020 | Where the Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| Loan Consideration | examined for loan | |
| 6/7/1994 | Examination | examined for condition |
| 6/16/1999 | Examination | examined for condition |
| 4/28/2016 | Treatment | examined for loan; stabilized |
Geographies
China (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall L: 91 1/2 × W: 19 3/4 in. (232.41 × 50.17 cm); Painting L: 31 5/8 x W: 11 1/4 in. (80.3 x 28.6 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1915
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
35.38