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Paintings after Ancient Masters: Volume 2
1598–1652
(Chinese, 1598/99–1652)
Overall: 30.2 x 26.7 cm (11 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1979.27.2
Location: not on view
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This album was treasured by 5 generations of the Weng family, from imperial tutor Weng Tonghe (1830–1904) through Wango Weng (1918–2020), an art historian, connoisseur, and filmmaker.Description
The twenty paintings in this double album by Chen Hongshou include landscapes, figures, and flowers. It also has one leaf featuring a woman, an often-used subject not found in the other albums from the latter part of his career. His late works are wonderful summations of Chen's peculiar and quirky art—archaistic, hyper-refined—but without accompanying shallowness or sentimentality.His figures and landscapes in the late albums are miniaturized, not unlike the small Chinese gardens, or the carefully selected small table rocks or old roots used for contemplation to see the world in miniature. This loss of scale is quite deliberate and reflects the psychological situation of a depressed class like the Ming loyalist officials and scholars, deprived of their integrity and honor, and forced to lead a diminished and restricted existence.
- Weng Tonghe 翁同龢 [1830–1904], by descent to Wango H. C. Weng?–1979(Wango H. C. Weng 翁萬戈 [1918–2020], Lyme, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1979–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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