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Title:Farewell at the Bridge of the Hanging Rainbow
Artist:Attributed to Tang Yin (Chinese, 1470–1524)
Period:Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Date:datable to 1508
Culture:China
Medium:Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions:Image: 11 11/16 x 42 3/8 in. (29.7 x 107.6 cm) Overall with mounting: 12 x 375 1/4 in. (30.5 x 953.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Object Number:1989.363.53
Inscription: Artist’s inscription and signature (5 columns in semi-cursive script)
The willow crackles now, its earlier green bitten by the frost; Like a rainbow on the water, the reflected bridge hangs down. Drinking deeply we feel the sorrow of our parting; Tomorrow our paths will part-yours to the west, mine to the east. Your daughter will be gone, and we, reminded, ungrateful for full moon; Sticking to fair winds, your journey will be safe and sound. Back home you will talk of how you passed the time, Until the candle on the stand has burned its wick way. -Translation by Marc F. Wilson/ Kuan S. Wong
Wu Puxin吳普心 (1897‒1987) Chongchuan Wu shi 崇川吴氏 Sixue Zhai 思學齋 Wu shi zhencang 吴氏珍藏 Nantong Wu shi shoucang shuhua yin 南通吴氏收藏書畫印 Puxin zhenshang 普心珍賞
Gu Luofu 顧洛阜 (John M. Crawford, Jr., 1913‒1988) Hanguang Ge 漢光閣 Gu Luofu 顧洛阜
Unidentified Donghai Xu Shouhe zhencang shoucang yin 東海徐守和珍藏收藏印 Ruoshui Xu shi 若水徐氏 Bangu Xuan shuhua yin 半古軒書畫印 Qingzhen Guan yin 清真館印 Xinshang 心賞 Wudeng An shoucang yin 無等庵收藏印
John M. Crawford Jr. American, New York (until d. 1988; bequeathed to MMA)
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy," April 6, 1977–June 27, 1977.
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley. "Traces of the Brush: Studies in Chinese Calligraphy," September 20, 1977–November 27, 1977.
Wang Jie 王杰 et al. Midian zhulin shiqu baoji xubian 祕殿珠林石渠寶笈續編 (Catalogue of painting and calligraphy in the Qianlong imperial collection: second series). Preface dated 1793. Facsimile reprint of an original manuscript copy. vol. 3, Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1971, pp. 1611–13.
Nakata Yūjirō 中田勇次郎, and Den Shin 傅申. Ō-Bei shūzō Chūgoku hōsho meiseki shū 歐米收藏中國法書名蹟集 (Masterpieces of Chinese calligraphy in American and European collections). Vol. 4. Tokyo: Chūō Kōronsha, 1981–1982, pls. 109–15.
Shih Shou-ch'ien, Maxwell K. Hearn, and Alfreda Murck. The John M. Crawford, Jr., Collection of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Checklist. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984, p. 27, cat. no. 61.
Toda Teisuke 戶田禎佑, and Ogawa Hiromitsu 小川祐充, eds. Chûgoku kaiga sogo zuroku: Daiikan, Amerika-Kanada Hen (Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings: vol.1: American and Canadian Collections) 中國繪畫總合圖錄: 第一卷 アメリカ - カナダ 編. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1998, pp. 32–33, cat. no. A1-201.
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