Description
Fan Qi's painting on this second leaf of the album is, perhaps, based on Du Mu's poetic line: The herdboy pointed to the distant Apricot Village.
Han Tan's calligraphic colophon facing the painting reads:
A thousand feet of red cliffs look like a sculptured flower of furong;
In one glance, the long bridge joins adjacent ridges.
Furthermore a wine shop stands in a bamboo grove;
The fellow who bought some good wine is drunk on the eastern shore of the stream.
Han Tan's calligraphic colophon facing the painting reads:
A thousand feet of red cliffs look like a sculptured flower of furong;
In one glance, the long bridge joins adjacent ridges.
Furthermore a wine shop stands in a bamboo grove;
The fellow who bought some good wine is drunk on the eastern shore of the stream.
Provenance
Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1836–1924]; (Robert G. Sawers [b. c. 1934], London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1975); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1975-)
Accession Number
1975.22.2
Medium
album leaf, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
