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Scholar and monk

Scholar and monk

(Chinese, 1598–1652)
1651
Medium/TechniqueInk and color on silk
DimensionsImage: 106.5 x 50.5 cm (41 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.)
Overall: 264.9 x 70.9 cm (104 5/16 x 27 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2018.2909
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InscriptionsArtist’s inscription and signature (1 column in standard script, undated) 老蓮洪綬 Laolian Hongshou
Provenance19th century, Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 - d. 1904), Beijing and Changshu, China; 1904, by inheritance from Weng Tonghe to his great-grandson, Weng Zhilian (d. 1919), Changshu and Tianjin; 1919, by inheritance from Weng Zhilian to his son, Wan-go H.C. Weng, Tianjin, New York, and New Hampshire; 2002, transferred to the Hsing Ching Weng Trust, New Hampshire; 2018, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)