Chinese picturesque scenes with women passing the time indoors. Gouache paintings.

Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
Reference:
727403i
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About this work

Description

The interiors are well-appointed, with fine carvings, paintings and fabrics

Publication/Creation

[between 1800 and 1899?]

Physical description

1 album (8 paintings) : gouache paintings, on canvas laid down on paper ; boards 49.2 x 34.5 cm

Reference

Wellcome Collection 727403i

Creator/production credits

At least one painting bears a name in Chinese which could be that of the painter Qiu Ying (1494?-1552): the paintings could be after him or inspired by him. There was a great number of imitators of aspects of his work for the use of admirers of depictions of women at leisure: on this Suzhou (Soochow) school of painters see James Cahill, Parting at the shore: Chinese painting of the early and middle Ming dynasty, New York 1978

Holdings

  • 8 paintings and one pair of boards

Where to find it

  • front board

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    Closed stores
  • no. 1

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  • no. 2

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  • nos. 3, 4 and 5

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  • nos. 6, 7 and 8

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