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Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Colophon
Fan Qiearly 1650s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The Japanese artist Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) adds a colophon on the last page, commenting on the rarity of Fan Qi's paintings among those of the Eight Masters of Nanjing. They were modeled after Tang and Song masters and captured the rhythms of life. "Whenever I open this album, my mind is pleased," he writes.
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- Title: Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Colophon
- Creator: Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616-aft 1694)
- Date Created: early 1650s
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
- Provenance: Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1836–1924], (Robert G. Sawers [b. c. 1934], London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.22.11
- Medium: album leaf, ink and color on silk
- Original Title: 山水花鳥圖冊
- Inscriptions: 1 colophon and 1 seal of Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 (1836-1924)
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
- Accession Number: 1975.22.11
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