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南山春靄圖 (王原祁)
Southern Hills After Spring Rain
南山春靄圖 (王原祁)
Wang Yuanqi (Chinese, 1642–1715)
Chinese
Qing dynasty
1699
Medium/Technique
Ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 124.5 x 63.2 cm (49 x 24 7/8 in.)
Overall: 272.8 x 82.5 cm (107 3/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
Overall: 272.8 x 82.5 cm (107 3/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in memory of Virginia Dzung Weng
Accession Number2013.4155
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
Catalogue Raisonné
21
Marks
Artist’s seals:
Wang Yuanqi yin 王原祁印 (square, intaglio)
Maojingfu 茂京父 (square, intaglio)
Wang Yuanqi yin 王原祁印 (square, intaglio)
Maojingfu 茂京父 (square, intaglio)
InscriptionsArtist’s inscription and signature (7 columns in standard script, dated 1699)
己卯初冬，倣一峰老人寫南山春靄圖，恭祝史母吳太夫人六袠榮壽。畫似耕巖道年兄正。婁東王原祁
In the early winter of the jimao year [1699], I imitated Master Yifeng’s [Huang Gongwang’s] style in painting Southern Mountains in Spring Mist to congratulate Madam Wu, Mother Shi, on her sixtieth birthday. I painted this for brother Gengyan’s refined appraisal. Wang Yuanqi from Loudong.
己卯初冬，倣一峰老人寫南山春靄圖，恭祝史母吳太夫人六袠榮壽。畫似耕巖道年兄正。婁東王原祁
In the early winter of the jimao year [1699], I imitated Master Yifeng’s [Huang Gongwang’s] style in painting Southern Mountains in Spring Mist to congratulate Madam Wu, Mother Shi, on her sixtieth birthday. I painted this for brother Gengyan’s refined appraisal. Wang Yuanqi from Loudong.
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; 2013, year-end gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)