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Yang Guifei Leaving the Bath

楊貴妃出浴圖

1700s

Gu Jianlong 顧見龍

(Chinese, 1606–after 1689)
Culture
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink, colors and gold on silk
Measurements
Painting only: 96.5 x 44.1 cm (38 x 17 3/8 in.); Overall with knobs: 231.8 x 73 cm (91 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The MCH Foundation 2017.65
Public Domain
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Due to the warm and humid climate in China’s southeast, silk workshops specialized in making airy gauze garments, like the one worn by Yang Guifei here.

Description

This painting alludes to the love story between Tang emperor Xuanzong (reigned 712–56) and his consort Yang Guifei. Yang’s nude body can be seen through the transparent silk-gauze robe as she leaves the bath. The historic scene is set in a southern open interior of the 1700s, offering a view into a garden with a Taihu stone. Yang is shielded by a large painted screen, signed Gu Jianlong, who ran a studio on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. While this painting offers historic and literary allusions for its educated client, the prints nearby imitate its hanging scroll format, the subject matter, composition, and southern-style setting.
Vertically long hanging scroll depicting a person with light skin tone kneeling and holding out a bowl to Yang Guifei, a woman with light skin tone, dark brown hair pulled up, and wearing a gauzy, swirling-patterned, red robe. She turns back and looks down, left arm folded across her chest, finger pointing down. Over a railing is a rock pocketed with holes and growing white flowers. A screen on the right depicts a landscape.

Yang Guifei Leaving the Bath

1700s

Gu Jianlong

(Chinese, 1606–after 1689)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

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