Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
35-3/8 x 18-1/8 in. (image) 94-3/8 x 24-5/8 in. (mount) 94-3/8 x 28-3/8 in. (installed)
Period
Dynasty
Mark Description
Signed: Gai Qi Seal: Gai Boyun yin Seal: Yuhu waishi Seal: Gai Qi Seal: Yuhu waishi
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift of Henry and Lee Harrison
Copyright
Collection
Asian Art (Chinese and other Asian)
Color Palette
Provenance
(Sotheby's, New York), 29 May 1991, lot 63; (James Freeman); Henry Harrison; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2004.
Gallery Labels
倣陳洪壽人物
Gai's first inscription reads
嘉慶五年秋九月上澣,玉壺外士改 琦 寫于澄園
During the first ten days of the ninth lunar month in the fifth year of the Jiaqing reign [1800] the "Jade-vase mountain dweller," Gai Qi, painted this at the Cheng Garden.
Gai's second inscription reads
此畫余十年前所作也。筆意效老蓮居士本。蓋繪事非天才不能辦到。余自愧老拙，未能仿佛古人萬一也。時丁卯冬至日。七薌改琦又記
This painting is one I did ten years ago. I painted it after an example by the retired scholar, Laolian [Chen Hongshou]. As a matter of fact, no one can paint, unless he is talented. I regret that I am old and clumsy, thus I am unable to catch even one ten thousandth of what old masters could do. It is the winter solstice day in 1807 when Qixiang, Gai Qi, again inscribes this. [tr. M. Wu]
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