Landscape of Nanjing, the Southern Capital
Wang Hui
(Chinese, 1632–1717)
1703
Medium/TechniqueHandscroll; ink and color on silk
DimensionsHeight x width: 9 7/8 x 102 15/16 in. (25.1 x 261.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in memory of Virginia Dzung Weng
Accession number2010.1033
ClassificationsPaintings
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; 2010, year-end gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)
