MAKER(S)
Artist: Wu Zhen 吳鎮 (1280-1354)
HISTORICAL PERIOD(S)
Yuan dynasty, ca. 1341
MEDIUM
Ink on paper
DIMENSIONS
H x W (image): 32.5 x 565.6 cm (12 13/16 x 222 11/16 in)
GEOGRAPHY
China
CREDIT LINE
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
COLLECTION
Freer Gallery of Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
F1937.12
ON VIEW LOCATION
Currently not on view
CLASSIFICATION(S)
Painting
TYPE
Handscroll
KEYWORDS
China, cursive script, fishing, landscape, mountain, WWII-era provenance, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)
PROVENANCE
To 1937
Tonying and Company, New York. [1]
From 1937
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Tonying and Company, New York. [2]
PREVIOUS OWNER(S)
Tonying and Company
LABEL
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