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Purification at the Orchid Pavilion

蘭亭修禊圖

1671

Fan Yi 樊沂

(Chinese, c. 1615–before 1688)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Image: 28.4 x 392.8 cm (11 3/16 x 154 5/8 in.); Overall: 29.8 x 763.3 cm (11 3/4 x 300 1/2 in.)

Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1977.47

Location

003 Special Exhibition Hall

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The gathering’s host is in the Orchid Pavilion at the end of the scroll, representing an episode known as “Wang Xizhi Watching the Geese 王羲之觀鵝圖.”

Description

By the 1600s, the historic gathering at Lanting, Zhejiang province, in 353 CE was a common theme in Chinese painting. Originally based on a composition attributed to Li Gonglin (1049– 1106), now lost, Wu school artists revived the theme.

Fan Yi, the brother of the artist Fan Qi from Nanjing, used delicate brushwork and luminous colors to depict the spring gathering.

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Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: Painted by Fan Yi of Zhongfu during the second month of winter of the xinhai year [1671]. [2 seals] Fan Yi zhi yin, Zi yu yi.

Inscription

Title on the frontispiece by Monk Yueshan (1629-1709).

Inscription

3 colophons and 13 additional seals: 1 colophon, dated 1707, and 6 seals of Yueshan; 2 colophons and 3 seals of Wong Kwan-Shut (Huang Junshi) 黃君實 (b. 1934); 2 seals of Fu Shen 傅申 (b. 1937); 2 seals of Tessai Tomioka 富岡鐵齋 (1836-1924).

Provenance

Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1837–1924]

?–1977

Wong Kwan-Shut 黃君實 [b. 1934], Kansas City, Missouri, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1977–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Reproduced: cat. no. 218, pp. 287-288

Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Reproduced: fig. 26, p. 42

Graham, Patricia Jane. Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1998. p. 51, no. 8

Chan Tat Chuen, William. A la table de l'empereur de Chine. Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier, 2002. pp. 34-35

Li, T. June. Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington's Chinese Garden. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2009. p. 70

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 374-378

Liu, Yiwen 刘漪文. “人间天堂的别处想象：在克利夫兰艺术博物馆遥望中国江南” [Imagining Paradise Elsewhere: Gazing at China's Jiangnan from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. The Art Newspaper 艺术新闻中文版, November 2, 2023. Reproduced www.tanchinese.com

Exhibition history

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003).

Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).

Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981).

Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017).

China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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