Herbaceous Peony
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
226 × 74.6 cm · image: 118.4 × 71.8 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection
Accession Number
1967.192
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About this artwork
Yun Shouping came from Piling (modern Changzhou), Jiangsu province, a center of floral, plant, and insect painting. He had joined the anti-Manchu resistance, was briefly imprisoned, and witnessed the death of family members in 1644. Like other artists, Yun Shouping expressed his Ming loyalism in coded pictures. The peony, king of flowers, and a spring garden motif developed new meaning during the Qing dynasty. The inscription indicates that Yun turns the flower into a motif representing the glor...