Autumn Mountains, for Jichang (Chi-ch'ang)
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Fans offer painters a more intimate, and sometimes less formal, format than that of scrolls. Many antique fan paintings were immediately mounted onto album pages, but some—like this one—have fold marks to indicate that they were used before being laid flat. The Manchuria-born artist Tang Dai received the title of “Number One Painter” from the Kangxi emperor. By the time he painted this fan, he was serving Kangxi’s successor as a veteran court artist. The poem at the top is dedicated to a friend who was leaving for a distant post. It extends the wish that when the friend opens the fan, he will feel that he is once again face to face with the artist.
Caption
Tang Dai Chinese, 1673–1754 or later. Autumn Mountains, for Jichang (Chi-ch'ang), 1739. Fan painting, ink and light color on iridescent paper, Fan: 7 7/16 x 22 1/16 in. (18.9 x 56 cm) 10 1/16 x 19 7/8 in. (25.6 x 50.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by the Joseph Hotung Family in memory of Stanley J. Love, 1995.8. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1995.8_IMLS_PS3.jpg)
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Collection
Gallery
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Collection
Artist
Title
Autumn Mountains, for Jichang (Chi-ch'ang)
Date
1739
Dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Period
Qianlong Period
Geography
Place made: China
Medium
Fan painting, ink and light color on iridescent paper
Classification
Dimensions
Fan: 7 7/16 x 22 1/16 in. (18.9 x 56 cm) 10 1/16 x 19 7/8 in. (25.6 x 50.5 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds given by the Joseph Hotung Family in memory of Stanley J. Love
Accession Number
1995.8
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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