The Bottle Gourd Immortal (Hu-lu hsien)

Artist Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427 - 1509)

Date1501

MediumHanging scroll; ink and color on paper

DimensionsOverall: 27 1/2 × 12 1/2 inches (69.9 × 31.7 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number47-69

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Pomona (CA) College, 1948.

The Arts of the Ming exhibition, Detroit Institute of Arts. April-June 1952.no.6.

Provenance

With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by 1947 [1];

Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.

NOTES:

[1] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.

Published References

Kinjiro Harada, Shina meiga Hokan [The pageant of Chinese painting] (Tokyo: The Otsuka-kogeisha, Shōwa 1936), pl. 502.

Harada Bizan, comp. Nihon genzai shina meiga mokuroku [Chinese paintings now in Japan] (Tokyo, 1938), 144.

The Arts of the Ming exhibition (Detroit Art Institute of Arts, 1952), 9, no.6.

Wai-Kam Ho, et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. (The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, c1980), 190-191, no. 156.

Shigeo Nakamura, Chin Shu-jin to geijutsu [Shen Chou, the man and his art] (Bunkado Shoten: Kyoto, 1982), 266, no. 71.

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