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Vertical scene of groups of Chinese people wearing robes, doing various activities that meander from bottom towards the top.

A man riding a horse with lowered head in lower right passes man with cart heading opposite direction. On the left a group of men recline, one stands holding up a cup with a jug by his feet. Above them, a calligrapher with brush in hand marks a paper on the ground while a small boy holds down the paper opposite him. Above them a man crouches behind a large vertical paper attached to a bamboo pole. To the right of him, three men sit reclined around a low table in the center right. Background is the paper surface.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.353
People
Maruyama Ōshin 円山応震 (1790 - 1838)
Shibata Gitō 柴田義董 (1790 - 1819)
Kawamura Bunpō 河村文鳳, Japanese (1779 - 1821)
Kinoshita Ōju 木下応受 (1777 - 1815)
Watanabe Nangaku 渡辺南岳, Japanese (1767 - 1813)
Okamoto Toyohiko 岡本豊彦 (1773 - 1845)
Oku Bunmei 奥文鳴 (d.1813)
Yamaguchi Soken 山口素絢, Japanese (1759 - 1818)
Title
Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
hanging scroll, painting
Date
mid 18th-early 19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340521

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk.
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 136.3 × W. 58 cm (53 11/16 × 22 13/16 in.)
overall mounting, including roller ends and suspension cord: H. 205.5 × W. 77 cm (80 7/8 × 30 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: 繍弥勒一本胡僧 / 慧澄所持来今為吾珍蔵 / 蘇晉 [An embroidered image of Maitreya, brought by the foreign monk Huicheng. Now treasured in my possession. Su Jin.]
  • signature: 應震 [Ōshin]
  • seal: rectangular, intaglio: 應震 [Ōshin]
  • signature: 應受 [Ōju]
  • seal: square, intaglio: 應受 [Ōju]
  • signature: 南岳 [Nangaku]
  • seal: square, intaglio: 无趕脚印 [Steps without haste]
  • signature: 素絢 [Soken]
  • seal: of Yamaguchi Soken; rectangular, intaglio: illegible
  • signature: 文鳴 [Bunmei]
  • seal: oval, relief: 文鳴 [Bunmei]
  • signature: 豊彦 [Toyohiko]
  • seal: two, square intaglio: 豊 [Toyo ] 彦 [hiko]
  • signature: 文鳳 [Bunpō]
  • seal: square, relief: 文鳳 [Bunpō]
  • signature: 義董 [Gitō]
  • seal: oval, relief: 義董 [Gitō]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Mayuyama & Co., Ltd. Tokyo, (1995)], sold; to Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1995-2018), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.353
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Eight Chinese scholars, mostly drinking or drunk, with attendant figures, painted by eight disciples of Maruyama Ōkyo.
Commentary
These artists were students of Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙 (1733-1795)

Publication History

  • Wai Yee Chiong, "A Medley of Brushes: Collaborative Paintings in the Feinberg Collection", Orientations, Orientations Magazine (Hong Kong, January/February 2020), vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 52-59, p. 59, fig. 7
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), p. 167, cat. 165

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/09/2017 - 12/07/2017

Verification Level

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