id:			131793
accession number:	1954.369
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.369
updated:		2021-03-27 12:14:52.560000

Palace Ladies, 1644-1911. Copy after Qiu Ying (Chinese, 1494-1552). Handscroll, ink and color on silk; overall: 36.2 x 454.4 cm (14 1/4 x 178 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of I. Theodore Kahn 1954.369

title:				Palace Ladies
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creation date:			1644-1911
creation date earliest:		1644
creation date latest:		1911
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creditline:			Gift of I. Theodore Kahn
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culture:	China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique:	handscroll, ink and color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Handscroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Qiu Ying (Chinese, 1494-1552)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 36.2 x 454.4 cm (14 1/4 x 178 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c
	opening date:   2019-08-12T04:00:00
	<i>Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 12, 2019-February 2, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	I. Theodore Kahn, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1954
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1954-
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wall description: 
This handscroll illustrates the pursuits of court ladies in a palace precinct on a spring day. Women, young girls, and their maids amuse themselves by sitting on a swing, playing games, watering and admiring peonies, performing music together, playing the <em>qin </em>(zither), feeding a parrot on the balustrade and fish in the water, or catching butterflies. The life of elite women was mostly restricted to the so-called inner quarters, meaning the garden and inner courts of the house. This painting idealizes the world of young palace girls that in fact was often filled with boredom and waiting for a lover.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Wangwright, Amanda S. "The Sick Man of Asia." In <em>Visualizing the Body in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine Since 1800: Models and Modeling.</em> Andrew Graciano, and Rebecca Marie Messbarger, eds., 180-200. London; New York: Routledge, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned: P. 187; reproduced: pl. 8.2
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