Greeting the Spring 迎春圖
Wu Bin 吳彬 1600
手卷 — rouleau à main. Faites défiler vers la gauche pour le dérouler, comme on le lit. 3 sections, 3400 × 826 pixels en tout.
Cette vue ne couvre qu’une partie du rouleau : les dimensions annoncées par le musée et celles de l’image ne concordent pas.
Cartel
- Artiste
- Wu Bin
- Nom en chinois
- 吳彬
- Biographie
- Originally from Fujian province, the artist Wu Bin moved to Nanjing by 1600 where he was affiliated as a Buddhist layman with the Qixia temple. He specialized in landscapes and Buddhist subjects.
- Date
- 1600
- Période
- Chine, dynastie des Ming (1368–1644)
- Format
- Rouleau à main (手卷), se déroule de droite à gauche
- Technique
- handscroll; ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 34.3 x 252.8 cm (13 1/2 x 99 1/2 in.); Overall: 35 x 1022.2 cm (13 3/4 x 402 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Numéro d’inventaire
- 1959.45
- Provenance
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Ce qu'en dit le musée
This masterfully composed landscape in light colors and delicate brushwork is an image of the water-rich Jiangnan region in southeast China, where Wu Bin was active as an artist. Embedded in rolling hills along lakesides and streams nestle cityscapes hosting numerous spring festivities. Lantern displays and street performances in the villages salute the New Year, and are interwoven with scenes of farming, fishing, and silk making. In one scene in the middle ground, an ox made of clay under a canopy is lead in a procession to an architectural compound, a ceremony known as whipping the spring ox in hope for a good harvest.
Notice de The Cleveland Museum of Art, fiche de l'œuvre.
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This handscroll bears five collector seals by the Qianlong emperor indicating his appreciation for the painting.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Inscriptions et sceaux
Artist's inscription, signature, and seal at upper right corner: Painted in the mid-winter of the gengzi year [1600]. Zhiyin 枝隱, Wu Bin 吳彬 [seal] Wenzhong 文中.
9 additional seals: 5 of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736–95); 3 of the Jiaqing emperor (r. 1796–1820); 1 of the Xuantong emperor (r. 1909–11).
Transcription et traduction : The Cleveland Museum of Art