Weng Xincun Searching for Plum Blossoms in the Yue Mountains
Ye Mengcao
(Ye Mengcao, 19th century)
Medium/Techniquefrontispiece on gold-flecked paper, painting in ink and color on silk
DimensionsImage: 36.2 × 142.4 cm (14 1/4 × 56 1/16 in.)
Overall: 37.1 × 734.8 cm (14 5/8 × 289 5/16 in.)
Height x length (frontispiece): 121.3 cm (47 3/4 in.)
Height x length (colophon): 360.7 cm (142 in.)
Overall: 37.1 × 734.8 cm (14 5/8 × 289 5/16 in.)
Height x length (frontispiece): 121.3 cm (47 3/4 in.)
Height x length (colophon): 360.7 cm (142 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and the Weng family, in honor of Weng Tonghe
Accession number2021.464
On View
Not 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)
