id: 131793 accession number: 1954.369 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.369 updated: 2022-01-04 15:53:37.718000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1644-1911 creation date earliest: 1644 creation date latest: 1911 current location: creditline: Gift of I. Theodore Kahn copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: handscroll, ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Qiu Ying (Chinese, 1494-1552) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 36.2 x 454.4 cm (14 1/4 x 178 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2019-08-12T04:00:00 Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 12, 2019-February 2, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE I. Theodore Kahn, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1954 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1954- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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 qin (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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wangwright, Amanda S. "The Sick Man of Asia." In Visualizing the Body in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine Since 1800: Models and Modeling. Andrew Graciano, and Rebecca Marie Messbarger, eds., 180-200. London; New York: Routledge, 2019. page number: Mentioned: P. 187; reproduced: pl. 8.2 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.369/1954.369_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.369/1954.369_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.369/1954.369_full.tif