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Photo Credit: Susan Cole
Landscape, Human Figures, and Flowers
Photo Credit: Susan Cole

Landscape, Human Figures, and Flowers

Date1762
Label TextExploring Hangzhou’s ancient sites and enjoying West Lake’s beauty together, Luo Ping and Xiang Jun made a ten-leaf album. Inspired by the home city of their famous mentor, Jin Nong (1687–1763), the album reflects the energy of new experiences, experimentation, and camaraderie. The artists might have conceived it for Hangzhou’s prominent Liang family, which included a former minister and art patron and his calligrapher son, who wrote the album’s label. Luo Ping’s refined bamboo, a classical subject, resonates with delicately executed calligraphy for a poem composed by Jin Nong. Xiang Jun’s playful, inky grapevines also flattered the “splashed-ink” repertoire of Jin Nong, whose poem on grapevine-painting is inscribed. The Liang’s sophisticated circle of literary and artistic friends would have appreciated these tributes and the differences between Luo’s and Xiang’s casually elegant combinations of pictures, poems, and calligraphy.
Object number97.83.1.5
ProvenanceNan-ping Wong, Hong Kong; Laura Wang
Photo CreditPhoto Credit: Susan Cole
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view July 16 - Dec. 5, 2021].Published ReferencesKarlsson, Kim, Alfreda Murck, and Michele Matteini, editors; "Museum Rietberg Zurich; Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping 1733-1799"; pg. 124-125, 270, published 2009
Credit LineBonnie and Gaither Kodis, Robert M. Arnold, Jane and David Davis, William H. Gates, Lyn and Gerald Grinstein, Janet Ketcham, C. Calvert Knudsen, Gaye and Jim Pigott, Vinton H. and Amelia J. Sommerville, Susan H. and William P. Vititoe, and Virginia and Bagley Wright
DimensionsOverall: 13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (34.3 x 41.9cm) Image: 11 7/16 x 13 7/16 in. (29.1 x 34.1cm)
MediumInk and color on paper