Inscription: Artist’s inscription (2 columns in semi-cursive script)

Palace of Nine Perfections. An imitation of the ancient style by Yuan Jiang from Hanshang [Yangzhou] in the xiaoyang [Indian summer, or tenth] month of the xinwei year of the Kangxi reign era.

《九成宮》，邗上袁江擬古，時康熙辛未小陽月。

Artist’s seals

Yuan Jiang zhi yin 袁江之印
Wentao 文濤

[ Jeoung-kyu Lee , Tokyo, until 1982; sold to MMA]

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Peach Blossom Spring," November 21, 1983–June 3, 1984.

Zurich. Museum Rietberg. "The Mandate of Heaven: Emperors and Artists in China," April 2, 1996–July 7, 1996.

Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. "The Mandate of Heaven: Emperors and Artists in China," August 3, 1996–November 10, 1996.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The New Chinese Galleries: An Inaugural Installation," 1997.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The World of Scholars' Rocks: Gardens, Studios, and Paintings," February 1–August 20, 2000.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "When the Manchus Ruled China: Painting under the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911)," February 2–August 18, 2002.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Dreams of Yellow Mountain: Landscapes of Survival in Seventeenth-Century China," September 13, 2003–February 22, 2004.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Douglas Dillon Legacy: Chinese Painting for the Metropolitan Museum," March 12–August 8, 2004.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Four Seasons," January 28–August 13, 2006.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Chinese Gardens: Pavilions, Studios, Retreats," August 18, 2012–January 6, 2013.

London. Victoria and Albert Museum. "Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700–1900," October 26, 2013–January 19, 2014.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China," August 26, 2017–January 6, 2019.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asia. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, pp. 108–109, pl. 69.

Barnhart, Richard M., Wen C. Fong, and Maxwell K. Hearn. Mandate of Heaven: Emperors and Artists in China: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Exh. cat. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 1996, pp. 146–47, 152–53, 226, cat. no. 31.