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Fan with painting of trees and mountains

This gold-colored, arc-shaped fan features a painting of trees with tall mountains in the background. The trees form a large cluster that begins at foreground right and snakes back and to the left. Their dark, bare appearance gives a them a silhouette-like effect. Some underbrush grows around their bases. In the background are tall gray mountains, painted with a lighter pigment. The mountains on the right are taller than those on the left. Chinese characters appear at the top center-left region of the fan. The bottom left corner has red seals.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.1
People
Zhang Hong 張宏, Chinese (1577 - c. 1652)
Title
Autumn Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, fan
Date
1627
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/201936

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and slight color on gold-surfaced paper and with signature reading "Zhang Hong"
Dimensions
17.5 × 57.3 cm (6 7/8 × 22 9/16 in.)
mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Zhang Hong

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
1984
Object Number
1984.1
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 32, p. 35

Exhibition History

  • Chinese Painting and Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/17/1991 - 01/26/1992
  • Art of the Fan: China, Korea, Japan, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/15/1995 - 10/08/1995
  • Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/25/2000 - 08/26/2001
  • Re-View: S228-230 (Asian rotation: 6), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/24/2011 - 11/12/2011

Verification Level

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