Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Chinese art treasures
Date1961
Publish_locationBoston, MA
PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston
CollectionRicci Institute Library [M5]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook (Exhibition catalog)
Series
ShelfAdmin. Office
Call NumberN7340.B657 1961
Description36 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
NoteExhibition held at the Museum, December 1, 1961-January 14, 1962.
"....Exhibition drawn from the collections of the National Palace Museum and those of the National Central Museum, now housed in Taiwan, which were originally in the Imperial collection of the House of Ching (1644-1911)"
"Reprinted with changes from Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, vol. LIX, No. 317, 1961.
Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Brief history of the Imperial collection and the Palace Museum, famous Tang-Song models, e.g. Yan Liben's Foreign envoy with tribute bearers, Portraits, Palace concert, Ladies preparing newly woven silk (Huizong), Wenji's return to China (Zhen Juzhong), Wenji's captivity in Mongolia, Children at play and Lady at Dressing-table (Su Hanchen), Horses and groom (Han Gan), Man trying to catch a horse (He Cheng), Eight gentlemen on a Spring outing (Zhao Yan), Tartars traveling on horseback (Li Zanhua), Travelers in the mountains, Drinking and singing at the foot of a precipitous mountain (Guan Tong), Fishing on a wintry river, Travelers among the snowy hills (Li Cheng), Travelers among mountains (Fan Kuan) Red cliffs (Wu Yuanzhi), (Yang Shixian), Hangzhou in moonlight album leaf (Li Song), Man in a pavilion watching the tide on the Qiantang River (Xu Daoning), On a mountain path, Two sages and attendant under a plum tree (Ma Yuan), Dragon boat regatta (Wang Zhenpeng), Walking with a staff, Eight landscapes (Shen Zhou), Shade of Summer trees, Stately trees and peaks (Dong Qichang).

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SubjectArt, Chinese--Exhibitions