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Summer Mountains after Dong Yuan

(Chinese, 1598–1677)
1642
Medium/TechniqueInk on paper
DimensionsImage: 171 x 91 cm (67 5/16 x 35 13/16 in.)
Overall: 350 x 120 cm (137 13/16 x 47 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in memory of Virginia Dzung Weng
Accession number2014.1871
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InscriptionsArtist’s inscription and signature (4 columns in standard script, dated 1642) 崇禎壬午春三月,屏蹟水村閑窗,展閱古人墨本,遂擬北苑夏山圖意,以適幽況。湘翁王鑑 In the third month of the renwu year [1642] of the Chongzhen region, I retreated to a river village. By a window I enjoyed at leisure ancient ink paintings. So I copied Beiyuan’s [Dong Yuan’s] manner of painting the Summer Mountains scroll to suit my seclusion.
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; 2014, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 2014)