Yang Guifei Leaving the Bath
1700s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink, colors and gold on silk
- Dimensions
- 96.5 × 44.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-113157
This painting relates to the legendary love story between Tang dynasty (618–906) emperor Xuanzong and his consort, the beautiful Yang Guifei. Set in what appears to be an 18th-century southern interior, the artist depicts Yang Guifei in a fashionable dress of semitransparent red gauze. Due to the warm and humid climate in China’s southeast, local silk workshops specialized and excelled in making airy gauze garments. Yang’s nude body can be seen through the red robe as she leaves the bath. Her servant offers her a bowl of soup. The presence of a male figure would have been a breach of customar…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The MCH Foundation, 2017.65
Registry history
- 1700s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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