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Pear
Blossoms, ca. 1280
Qian Xuan (ca. 1235–before 1307)
Handscroll;
ink and color on paper; 12 1/4 x 37 1/2 in. (31.1 x 95.3 cm)
Ex coll.: Sir
Percival David
Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1977 (1977.79)
| What
is this image about? | | To
the left of his painting of Pear Blossoms,
Qian Xuan juxtaposed a poem that hints at the true subject of his image:
The lonely tear-stained face,
teardrops washing the branches.
Though now without makeup, her old charms
remain.
Behind the closed gate, on a rainy night, how she is filled with
sadness,
How differently she looked bathed in golden waves of moonlight,
before darkness fell. Next Back |
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