page_title: Gu Kaizhi
section_title: Nymph of the Luo River (洛神賦)
hierarchical_section_title: Gu Kaizhi / Works / Nymph of the Luo River (洛神賦)
caption_attribution_description: English: Gu Kaizhi. Nymph of the Luo River. (24,2x310,9 cm) Southern Song Copy. Freer Gallery of Art. Washington.
context_page_description: Gu Kaizhi, courtesy name Changkang, was a Chinese painter and politician. He was a celebrated painter of ancient China. He was born in Wuxi and first painted at Nanjing in 364. In 366, he became an officer. Later he was promoted to royal officer. He was also a talented poet and calligrapher. He wrote three books about painting theory: On Painting, Introduction of Famous Paintings of Wei and Jin Dynasties and Painting Yuntai Mountain. He wrote: "In figure paintings the clothes and the appearances were not very important. The eyes were the spirit and the decisive factor."
  Gu's art is known today through copies of several silk handscroll paintings attributed to him.
context_section_description: Nymph of the Luo River is a painting by Gu which illustrates a poem written by Cao Zhi (192-232). It survives in three copies dating to the Song Dynasty.  One copy is now held in the Palace Museum in Beijing, and another one is now at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. The third was brought to Manchuria by the last emperor Pu Yi (1906–1967) while he was the puppet emperor of Manchukuo under Japanese rule. When the Japanese surrendered in 1945 the painting disappeared. After ten years the Liaoning Province Museum recovered it.
caption: The Freer Gallery of Art copy of the Nymph of the Luo River, Southern Song.
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