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.
Fan Yi, the brother of the artist Fan Qi from Nanjing, used delicate brushwork and luminous colors to depict the spring gathering.
Provenance
Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1837–1924]; 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 (1977–)
Accession Number
1977.47
Medium
Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
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.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art
