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Purification at the Orchid Pavilion

蘭亭修禊圖

1671

Fan Yi 樊沂

(Chinese, c. 1615–before 1688)
Culture
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Medium
Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Measurements
Image: 28.4 x 392.8 cm (11 3/16 x 154 5/8 in.); Overall: 29.8 x 763.3 cm (11 3/4 x 300 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1977.47
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The gathering’s host is in the Orchid Pavilion at the end of the scroll, representing an episode known as “Wang Xizhi Watching the Geese 王羲之觀鵝圖.”

Description

By the 1600s, the historic gathering at Lanting, Zhejiang province, in 353 CE was a common theme in Chinese painting. Originally based on a composition attributed to Li Gonglin (1049– 1106), now lost, Wu school artists revived the theme.

Fan Yi, the brother of the artist Fan Qi from Nanjing, used delicate brushwork and luminous colors to depict the spring gathering.
A handscroll depicts a colorful scene of people with light skin tones in a garden, most seated on blankets laid out on the grass. Water snakes across the scene opening out at the left edge where four white geese swim. People look toward the geese from a pavilion jutting out over the water from the left edge. Trees speckle the scene with defined blue leaves or dabs and needles of dark green.

Purification at the Orchid Pavilion

1671

Fan Yi

(Chinese, c. 1615–before 1688)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

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