The Qingming [Ch'ing-ming] Festival
(China )
This is a copy of--or a variation upon--one of the most famous of all Chinese handscrolls, a depiction of life along the Yellow River in the Song-dynasty capital of Kaifeng, painted in 1120. During the time of the Qingming festival, which occurs in late March or early April, people visit their family graves. The painter Qiu Ying (1494-1552) made a copy of the original scroll, and a number of later versions bear his name.
Spurious signature of Qiu Ying.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Laurance and Isabel Roberts, New York, 1939, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1991, by gift.
Geographies
China (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 255 1/16 x W: 12 15/16 in. (647.8 x 32.8 cm); Paper H: 11 1/2 x L: 47 3/8 in. (29.2 x 120.3 cm); Text H: 12 1/16 x L: 19 3/8 in. (30.6 x 49.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Laurance and Isabel Roberts, 1991
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
35.175