清 惲壽平 花卉圖 摺扇|Carnations and amaranthus
Medium
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; color on paper
Dimensions
6 11/16 x 20 in. (17 x 50.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Accession Number
1989.363.148
Tags
About the Artist
Yun Shouping · 1633–1690
Yun Shouping originally had the name Ge and the style name Shouping, by which he later went. A native of Wujin in Jiangsu, he at first excelled at landscape painting but later felt that he could not compete with the master Wang Hui (1632-1717), turning to flowers instead. His style can be traced all the way back to the "boneless" method of washes used by Xu Chongsi (fl. latter half of 10th c.), bu...