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Li Bai's night revel in peach and plum garden


李白宴桃李園圖 (陳洪綬)
Chen Hongshou (Chinese, 1598–1652)
Chinese
Qing dynasty
1650

Medium/Technique Ink and color on silk
Dimensions Height x width: 156 x 73 cm (61 7/16 x 28 3/4 in.)
Overall: 289.6 × 104.1 cm (114 × 41 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in memory of Virginia Dzung Weng
Accession Number2014.1870
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné 09
Marks Chen Hongshou yin 陳洪綬印 (square, intaglio)
Zhanghou 章矦 (square, relief)
InscriptionsArtist’s inscription and signature (1 column in standard script, dated 1650)

庚寅龝(秋)。谿山洪綬畫於眉儛書屋
In the autumn of the gengyin year [1650], painted by Hongshou in Meiwu Studio
ProvenanceAcquired in the nineteenth century by Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 – d. 1904), Changshu, China; 1904, by inheritance from Weng Tonghe to his great-grandson, Weng Zhilian (d. 1919), Changshu and Tianjin; 1919, by inheritance from Weng Zhilian to his son, Wan-go H.C. Weng, Tianjin, New York, and New Hampshire; 2002, transferred to the Hsing Ching Weng Trust, New Hampshire; 2014, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 2014)