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Elegant Gathering at the Laixi Residence (1985)

Elegant Gathering at the Laixi Residence (1985)

(Chinese-American, 1918–2020)
1986 - 1990
Object PlaceChina
Medium/Techniqueink and color on paper
DimensionsHeight x width (Frontispiece): 25.6 × 89.4 cm (10 1/16 × 35 3/16 in.)
Image (First): 29.6 × 94.1 cm (11 5/8 × 37 1/16 in.)
Image (Second): 29.6 × 89.7 cm (11 5/8 × 35 5/16 in.)
Image (Third): 29.6 × 93.4 cm (11 5/8 × 36 3/4 in.)
Height x width (Calligraphy 1): 25.5 × 50.2 cm (10 1/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Height x width (Calligraphy 2): 25.5 × 50.1 cm (10 1/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Height x width (Calligraphy 3): 25.5 × 50.4 cm (10 1/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Height x width (Calligraphy 4): 25.5 × 50.2 cm (10 1/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Height x width (Calligraphy 5): 25.5 × 50 cm (10 1/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
Height x width (Calligraphy 6): 25.5 × 50.2 cm (10 1/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Height x width (Calligraphy 7): 25.5 × 50.3 cm (10 1/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Height x width (Calligraphy 8): 25.5 × 50.3 cm (10 1/16 × 19 13/16 in.)
Overall: 37.9 × 1326.4 cm (14 15/16 × 522 3/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2018.2899
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsArtist’s inscription and signature (4 columns in standard script, dated April 15, 1990) 萊溪雅集一九八五年五月末之盛事也。此圖人物成於次歲，閱四寒暑始補前後兩景。 翁萬戈誌於萊溪居一九九零四月十五 The elegant gathering at Laixi Residence is the grand occasion at the end of May, 1985. The figures in this painting were completed the following year. After four years, two scenic views were added, one in the front and one at the back. Weng Wan-go records this at Laixi Residence, April 15, 1990.
Provenance2002, transferred by the artist to the Hsing Ching Weng Trust, New Hampshire; 2018, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 12, 2018)