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Snowy riverscape with a hermit in a boat


雪江圖斗方 (傳 班惟志)
Ban Weizhi (Chinese, early 14th century)
Chinese
Yuan dynasty
second quarter of the 14th century

Medium/Technique Ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions 25.4 x 24.5 cm (10 x 9 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Chinese and Japanese Special Fund
Accession Number12.900
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

ProvenanceJuan Yuan (b. 1764 - d. 1849). By about 1900, Wanyan Jingxian (d. by 1928), Beijing [see note 1];1912, sold by Wanyan Jingxian to Okakura Kakuzo (b. 1862 - d. 1913) for the MFA. (Accession Date: September 5, 1912)

NOTES:
[1] According to a statement in his own painting catalogue, Wanyan Jingxian lost this object (part of an album, MFA accession nos. 12.889 - 12.901) during the Boxer Rebellion, but recovered it shortly thereafter.