Presenting the Tripod

1803

Not on view

As a youth, Wang Xuehao studied with a grandson of Wang Yuanqi, who trained him in the elements that made the elder Wang’s manner so beloved: loose dotting, bold interplays of solid and void, and a studied awkwardness of line that somehow never departed from elegance. Wang Xuehao shows his mastery of this style in this short handscroll, which depicts the scholar and art collector Ruan Yuan donating a famous ancient bronze vessel to a Buddhist monastery.

Artwork Details

清王學浩焦山媵鼎圖卷
Title: Presenting the Tripod
Artist: Wang Xuehao (Chinese, 1754–1832)
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date: 1803
Culture: China
Medium: Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 13 3/16 × 35 3/8 in. (33.5 × 89.9 cm)
Overall with mounting: 14 in. × 31 ft. 9 in. (35.6 × 967.7 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2015
Object Number: 2015.574
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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