Listening to the Pines in a Riverside Pavilion
date: label: Date
content: 16th century
label: Period
content: Ming dynasty
name: label: Artist
content: Formerly attributed to Xu Daoning (ca. 1000-after 1066)
notes: label: School/Tradition
content: Zhe School
label: Provenance
content: Hsiang Yuan-Pien (1525-1590) [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1916
label: Provenance
content: Pang Yuanji (1864-1949), Shanghai [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1916 to 1970
label: Provenance
content: Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), New York, NY, Washington, DC, and Mt. Kisco, NY, purchased from Pang Yuanji in 1916 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1970
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, bequeathed by Agnes E. Meyer in 1970 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] The Ming collector’s, Hsiang Yuan-pien’s seal is located on the painting, see Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition (Washington: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973), p. 56, no. 25 (ill.).
label: Provenance
content: [2] The painting was published and illustrated in Pang Yuanji’s catalogue, Antique Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by P’ang Lai Ch’en (Tang Wudai Song Yuan minghua), vol. 1 (Shanghai, Privately published by Pang Yuanji, 1916), no. 20: “Hsü Toa Ning, Listening to the Pines at the Hermitage.”
label: Provenance
content: Pang Yuanji’s collector seal is located on the painting.
label: Provenance
content: [3] In 1916 Pang Yuanji, with the assistance of dealers Pang Zanchen and Seaouke Yue, sent a group of paintings illustrated in Antique Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by P’ang Lai Ch’en catalogue to New York where they were shown to Charles Freer. See Ingrid Larsen, “‘Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures’: Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum,” Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), p. 23. Freer made a selection of twenty one paintings for his collection and advised the Meyers and Louisine Havemeyer with their acquisitions. Freer’s copy of the 1916 Pang catalogue includes pencil annotations indicating that this painting was purchased by Agnes E. Meyer.
label: Provenance
content: [4] The painting is included in a codicil to Agnes E. Meyer’s will and testament, dated December 23, 1969, copy in object file
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting (IV) (June 12 to November 28, 2010)
label: Exhibition History
content: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting (III) (May 29, 1999 to January 30, 2000)
label: Exhibition History
content: Ming Dynasty Paintings (December 4, 1978 to June 14, 1979)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Album Leaves and Fan Paintings (September 14, 1977 to April 8, 1978)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Figure Painting (September 17, 1973 to January 3, 1975)
label: Exhibition History
content: Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition (September 25, 1971 to October 2, 1972)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Hsiang Yuan-Pien (1525-1590)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 (1864-1949)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: landscape
label: Topic
content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
label: Topic
content: qin
label: Topic
content: pavilion
label: Topic
content: scholar
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1970.36
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Hanging scroll mounted on panel; ink on silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 199.5 x 106.2 cm (78 9/16 x 41 13/16 in)