Life on the river
18th century
- Medium
- Ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 18.6 × 173.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-126684
This handscroll presents a virtual anthology of the typical images and stock characters found on a Chinese river. At right, a woman and young lad pole along the gentle current behind a scholar-fisherman and his serving boy who are angling in midriver. On the far bank, a herdboy rides a water buffalo followed by a calf, and a wood gatherer rests by the stream as a woman appears around the hill car…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 18th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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