Sailing in a Log Raft in the Jade Ocean (A Portrait of Weng Xincun)
Liao Yun
(Chinese, active in mid-19th century)
1828
Medium/TechniqueInk and color on paper
DimensionsImage: 42.5 × 174.8 cm (16 3/4 × 68 13/16 in.)
Overall: 47.6 × 1083.2 cm (18 3/4 × 426 7/16 in.)
Length (head section): 57 cm (22 7/16 in.)
Height x width (frontispiece): 42.6 × 131.8 cm (16 3/4 × 51 7/8 in.)
Length (end paper): 623.5 cm (245 1/2 in.)
Overall: 47.6 × 1083.2 cm (18 3/4 × 426 7/16 in.)
Length (head section): 57 cm (22 7/16 in.)
Height x width (frontispiece): 42.6 × 131.8 cm (16 3/4 × 51 7/8 in.)
Length (end paper): 623.5 cm (245 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2021.463
On View
On viewClassificationsPaintings
Provenance19th century, 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 (b. 1918 – d. 2020), Tianjin, New York, and New Hampshire; 2002, transferred to the Hsing Ching Weng Trust, New Hampshire; 2021, gift of the Hsing Ching Weng Trust to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 16, 2021)
