Herbaceous Peony
1685
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 118.4 × 71.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-111413
Yun Shouping came from Piling (modern Changzhou), Jiangsu province, a center of floral, plant, and insect painting. He had joined the anti-Manchu resistance, was briefly imprisoned, and witnessed the death of family members in 1644. Like other artists, Yun Shouping expressed his Ming loyalism in coded pictures. The peony, king of flowers, and a spring garden motif developed new meaning during the Qing dynasty. The inscription indicates that Yun turns the flower into a motif representing the glorious past. The herbaceous peonies here appear somewhat withered and pale, with faint reddish veins …
Provenance
Corning Botanical Collection, 1967.192
Registry history
- 1685 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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