Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Plum blossoms in four scrolls


梅花圖屏 (金農)
Jin Nong (Chinese, 1687–1764)
Chinese
Qing dynasty
1736

Medium/Technique Ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 162.9 × 214 cm (64 1/8 × 84 1/4 in.)
Image: 96.6 x 51.6 cm (38 1/16 x 20 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession Number2017.3902.1-4
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné 24
Marks Artist’s seals:

Jin Jijin yin 金吉金印 (square, intaglio)
Shengyu dingmao 生於丁卯 (square, relief)

InscriptionsArtist’s inscription and signature (2 columns in standard/lacquer script, dated 1736)

乾隆元年十月,在宣武門外寓樓中畫。錢唐金農
The tenth month of the first year of the reign of Qianlong [1736], painted in my residence outside the Xuanwu Gate [north gate of Beijing], Qiantang [Hangzhou] Jin Nong
Provenance1959, sold by Ma Jizuo (b. 1915 – d. 2009), Hong Kong, to Wan-go H.C. Weng, New York and New Hampshire; 2002, transferred to the Hsing Ching Weng Trust, New Hampshire; 2017, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 2017)