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Portrait of An Qi in His Garden


王焦合畫安歧小像 (王翬, 焦秉貞)
Wang Hui (Chinese, 1632–1717)
Jiao Bingzhen (Chinese, 1689–1726)
Chinese
Qing dynasty
1698
Object Place: China

Medium/Technique ink and color on silk
Dimensions Overall: 46 × 1317.2 cm (18 1/8 × 518 9/16 in.)
Height x width (frontispiece): 37 × 99.1 cm (14 9/16 × 39 in.)
Image: 36.9 × 347.6 cm (14 1/2 × 136 7/8 in.)
Height x width (colophon 1): 43 × 89.7 cm (16 15/16 × 35 5/16 in.)
Height x width (colophon 2): 39.7 × 148.8 cm (15 5/8 × 58 9/16 in.)
Height x width (end section): 40.4 × 370 cm (15 7/8 × 145 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession Number2018.2801
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Marks Artists’ seals:
Jiao Bingzhen yin 焦秉貞印 (square, relief)
Shiguzi 石谷子,
Wang Hui zhi yin 王翚之印
InscriptionsArtist’s inscription and signature (2 columns in standard script, dated 1698)
戊寅八月。焦秉貞為麓邨先生寫照
The eighth month of the wuyin year [1698], Jiao Bingzhen portrayed Mr. Lucun [An Qi].

Artist’s inscription and signature (2 columns in standard script, dated 1698)
歲次戊寅小春廿日。耕煙散人王翚補圖
On the twentieth day of the xiaochun [tenth] month of the wuyin year [1698], Wang Hui added [the background] to the painting.
Provenance19th century, Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Beijing and 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; 2018, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)