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Southern Hills After Spring Rain

Southern Hills After Spring Rain

(Chinese, 1642–1715)
1699
Medium/TechniqueInk and color on paper
DimensionsImage: 124.5 x 63.2 cm (49 x 24 7/8 in.)
Overall: 272.8 x 82.5 cm (107 3/8 x 32 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in memory of Virginia Dzung Weng
Accession number2013.4155
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InscriptionsArtist’s inscription and signature (7 columns in standard script, dated 1699) 己卯初冬，倣一峰老人寫南山春靄圖，恭祝史母吳太夫人六袠榮壽。畫似耕巖道年兄正。婁東王原祁 In the early winter of the jimao year [1699], I imitated Master Yifeng’s [Huang Gongwang’s] style in painting Southern Mountains in Spring Mist to congratulate Madam Wu, Mother Shi, on her sixtieth birthday. I painted this for brother Gengyan’s refined appraisal. Wang Yuanqi from Loudong.
ProvenanceAcquired in the nineteenth century by Weng Tonghe (b. 1830 – d. 1904), 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; 2013, year-end gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)