Self-portrait

Xiang Shengmo (Chinese, 1597–1658)

1646

Object PlaceChina

Medium/TechniqueInk, color on paper

DimensionsHeight x length (image only): 34.3 × 28.3 cm (13 1/2 × 11 1/8 in.)
Overall (hanging scroll including hanging cord and end-knobs): 146.5 × 53.6 × 3.3 cm (57 11/16 × 21 1/8 × 1 5/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe

Accession number2018.2785

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InscriptionsArtist’s inscription (4 columns in standard script, dated 1646) 易庵自補五十歲。󠄣☐以丁酉八月十八日。今丙戌歲，年五十矣。 Yian [Xiang Shengmo] completed this portrait himself. [Counting from the] dingyou year [1597], eighteenth day of the eighth month, up to now, bingxu year [1646], already age fifty.

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)