Portrait of Yuan artist Ni Zan
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.From the twelfth century onward, scholar-officials and literati treasured bronzes of antiquity and were drawn to decorative arts that resembled such objects. Ni Zan, a renowned painter and literatus, is here portrayed in a typical scholar’s studio. He leans against an armrest with a brush and paper in his hands. Next to the couch, an exquisite table displays two bronzes, a tripod cauldron and a beaker, which have been appropriated as furnishings and expressions of literati taste.
Artwork Details
- 明 仇英 倪瓚像卷
- Title: Portrait of Yuan artist Ni Zan
- Artist: Qiu Ying (Chinese, ca. 1495–1552)
- Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Date: ca. 1542
- Culture: China
- Medium: Handscroll; ink and colors on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 12 3/8 × 18 7/8 in. (31.5 × 47.9 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Lend by Shanghai Museum
- Rights and Reproduction: Photograph courtesy of Shanghai Museum
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art