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Winter landscape with temples and travelers

Fan Kuan (Chinese, active late 10th–early 11th century)

11th century

Medium/TechniqueInk and color on silk, rosewood endknobs (Dalbergia Oliveri)

DimensionsImage: 182.4 × 103 cm (71 13/16 × 40 9/16 in.)
Overall (with height of hanging space and width of end-knobs): 319 × 135 cm (125 9/16 × 53 1/8 in.)
Overall (mounting): 310 × 121.7 cm (122 1/16 × 47 15/16 in.)

Credit LineChinese and Japanese Special Fund

Accession number14.52

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Asia

ProvenanceEmperor Wenzong (b. 1304 - d. 1332), Yuan dynasty. 19th century, Fang-lin (?). 1913, with a Mr. Re, China; October 5, 1913, sold by Mr. Re to Hayasaki Kokichi (b. 1874 - d. 1956) [see note 1] and taken to Japan; December, 1913, shipped to Boston and purchased by the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1914)

NOTES:
[1] The MFA's purchasing agent in China.