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Qian Xuan: Wang Xizhi watching geese  wikidata:Q29383319 reasonator:Q29383319
Artist
Qian Xuan
錢選
(ca. 1235–before 1307)
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Title
Wang Xizhi watching geese
王羲之觀鵝圖
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
This is a detail from the painting Wang Xizhi watching geese by Qian Xuan.
Depicted people Wang Xizhi Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1295
date QS:P571,+1295-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions 27.9 × 1,063.8 cm (0.9 × 34.9 ft)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
1973.120.6
Place of creation China during the Yuan dynasty
Credit line Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973
Notes

The Metropolitan Museum of Art states:

After the fall of Hangzhou, the Southern Song capital, in 1276, the artist Qian Xuan chose to live as an yimin, a “leftover subject” of the dynasty. Painted in his deliberately primitive “blue-and-green” style, this handscroll illustrates the story of Wang Xizhi (  303 – 361), the calligraphy master of legendary fame and a practitioner of Daoist alchemy, who was said to derive inspiration from natural forms such as the graceful neck movements of geese. In creating a dreamlike evocation of antiquity, the artist prevented a realistic reading of his picture space as a way of asserting the disjuncture he felt after the fall of the Song royal house.
References Wang Xizhi watching geese. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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