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Series Title: 雑畫圖冊

Su Dongpo

蘇東坡

1788

Min Zhen 閔貞

(Chinese, 1730–after 1788)
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Culture
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Medium
album leaf, ink on paper
Measurements
Sheet: 29 x 18.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1985.71.6
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Su Dongpo 蘇東坡 (1037–1101) is the likely model, but the gentleman is holding an incense burner instead of an ink stone more commonly associated with the famed poet.

Description

Min Zhen, who was orphaned at age 12 and developed an eccentric personality, was trained by Tang Yin (1682–1756), a writer, playwright, and superintendent of the imperial porcelain workshops in Jingdezhen. The connection to him may have enabled Min to stay in Beijing for a decade from around 1773. It is not clear whether he ever resided in Yangzhou, but his style is in many instances reminiscent of that of Yangzhou artist Huang Shen. This album demonstrates Min’s versatility and mature style in the last years of his life.
A hanging scroll in black ink depicts Su Dongpo, a man with light skin tone, facing our left against an empty background. He wears a tall black cap and voluminous robes rendered in broad, dark brushstrokes. He holds a small object from which a wisp of gray smoke curls upward. Chinese calligraphy and a red seal feature in the upper right corner, while another red seal sits in the bottom left.

Su Dongpo

1788

Min Zhen

(Chinese, 1730–after 1788)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

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