Portrait of Wang Huan
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Sackler Gallery Collection"}], "date": [{"label": "Date", "content": "ca. 1056"}, {"label": "Period", "content": "Northern Song dynasty"}], "identifier": [{"label": "Accession Number", "content": "F1948.10"}], "notes": [{"label": "Previous custodian or owner", "content": "Di Xuegeng (born 1820)"}, {"label": "Previous custodian or owner", "content": "Wang"}, {"label": "Previous custodian or owner", "content": "Shengyu (1850-1900)"}, {"label": "Previous custodian or owner", "content": "Wanyan Jingxian (ca. 1848-ca. 1927-29)"}, {"label": "Previous custodian or owner", "content": "Laiyuan Co."}, {"label": "Previous custodian or owner", "content": "Tonying and Company \u00e9\u0080\u009a\u00e9\u0081\u008b\u00e5\u0085\u00ac\u00e5\u008f\u00b8 (established 1902)"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "From at least 1862 to 1868"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Di Xuegeng (1820-after 1897) [1]"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "From 1868 to not later than 1892"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Wang, given by Di Xuegeng in 1868 [2]"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "From at least 1892"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Shengyu (1850-1900), purchased from Wang prior to 1892 [3]"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "To about 1916"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Wanyan Jingxian (ca. 1848-50 \u00e2\u0080\u0093 ca. 1927-29) [4]"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "About 1916"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Laiyuan Company, Shanghai [5]"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "From 1916 to 1948"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Tonying and Company, New York [6]"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "From 1948"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Tonying and Company [7]"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "Notes:"}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "[1] The painting was a part of an album of five portraits produced around the year 1056 and collectively known as Suiyang wulao tu (Five Elders of Suiyang). Two other portraits from the same set are in the collection of Yale University Art Gallery. The fifth portrait is in the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The wooden covers of the album, the title page and a number of colophons relating to the portraits are also in the Metropolitan Museum. The information included in the colophons in the Metropolitan Museum collection along with those recorded in the catalogue Tiewang shanhu (1600), makes it possible to reconstruct the history of the painting. See Thomas Lawton, Chinese Figure Painting (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1973), p. 164-70 and \u00e2\u0080\u009cSong and Yuan Painting and Calligraphy,\u00e2\u0080\u009d http://www.asia.si.edu/songyuan/F1948.10/F1948-10.Documentation.pdf, accessed on November 20, 2012."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "[2] Di Xuegeng was forced to give the painting to the official named Wang. See Lawton 1973, cited in note 1."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "[3] See Lawton 1973, cited in note 1."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "[4] The painting along with four other portraits from the set was reproduced in F. S. Kwen, A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient and Genuine Chinese Paintings (Guhua liuzhen) (Shanghai, Laiyuan Company, 1916), cat. no. 60: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Five Old Men of Suiyang (Album containing five pictures).\u00e2\u0080\u009d The catalogue listed the set as owned by the Manchu collector, Wanyan Jingxian."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "[5] See Kwen\u00e2\u0080\u0099s catalogue, cited in note 4. The catalogue illustrated sixty paintings from various collections in China which were delivered to Charles Lang Freer for his purchase consideration by Kwen\u00e2\u0080\u0099s associate, C. T. Loo in October 1916. Freer, however, did not make any purchases and shortly thereafter the album was broken up. See Freer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s letters to Agnes E. Meyer, dated to October 10, 1916 and October 24, 1916, Agnes E. Meyer Papers, Library of Congress."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "[6] C. F. Yau (Yao Shulai) was a manager at the Tonying & Company\u00e2\u0080\u0099s branch in New York. According to Yau\u00e2\u0080\u0099s statement, the Tonying & Company was the original American dealer for the Suiyang wulao tu album, see Li Lin-ts\u00e2\u0080\u0099an, \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe Five Old Men of Sui-yang,\u00e2\u0080\u009d National Palace Museum Bulletin 8, no. 5 (November -December 1973), p. 10 and Ingrid Larsen, \u00e2\u0080\u009c\u00e2\u0080\u0098Don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t Send Ming or Later Pictures\u00e2\u0080\u0099: Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), p. 26, 37, note 135."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "[7] See A. G. Wenley\u00e2\u0080\u0099s letter to C. F. Yau, Tonying & Company, dated to July 12, 1948, copy in object file, and Tonying & Company\u00e2\u0080\u0099s invoice, listing two paintings, F1948.10 and F1948.11, dated to July 14, 1948, copy in object file."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "Purchase \u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles Lang Freer Endowment"}], "name": [{"label": "Sitter", "content": "Wang Huan"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "portrait"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Song dynasty (960 - 1279)"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127)"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "China"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Chinese Art"}], "place": [{"label": "Origin", "content": "China"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Medium", "content": "Ink and color on silk"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "H x W (image): 41.7 x 31.7 cm (16 7/16 x 12 1/2 in)"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. 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