Zhou Dunyi admiring lotus flowers, late 19th century
Artist in the Global Art Registry
Ren Xun
1835–1893 · Qing dynasty
- Born
- 1835
- Died
- 1893 · Su Zhou
3 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Ren Xun was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty.
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Ren Xun (Chinese: 任薰; pinyin: Rén Xūn; Wade–Giles: Jen Hsün; ca. 1835–1893) was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty. Ren was born in Xiaoshan in Zhejiang province. Ren came from a family of artists, his brother was Ren Xiong. His paintings were primarily of human figures, done in the style of Chen Hongshou. He was one of the "Four Rens of Shanghai" Today, his work is held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Palace Museum, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Brooklyn Museum.
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Selected from 3 works by Ren Xun in the Collect24 Registry.
Ren Xun
Zhou Dunyi admiring lotus flowers, late 19th century
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on paper
18.3 × 51.6 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-122430
Ren Xun
Scholar in the Wind, ca. 1880
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
16.7 × 23.8 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-122399
Ren Xun
Bird on a Rock by a Flowering Branch, dated 1879
Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
17.8 × 53 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-118971
Ren Xun
Narcissus, Plum Blossom, Bamboo, and Bird, 1880
Album leaf; ink and color on paper
29.9 × 32.5 cm
Harvard Art Museums
C24-120236
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- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
3 works
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