Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Thumbnail-size images of copyrighted artworks are displayed under fair use, in accordance with guidelines recommended by the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, published by the College Art Association in February 2015.

Portrait of Shen Zhou


沈周小像卷
Attributed to: Jiang You (Jiang You, Chinese, 15th century)
Chinese
Ming dynasty
Object Place: China

Medium/Technique ink and color on paper
Dimensions Height x width (Overall): 30.7 × 773.3 cm (12 1/16 × 304 7/16 in.)
Height x width (Painting): 29.5 × 63.5 cm (11 5/8 × 25 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession Number2018.2895
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

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)