Palaces in Landscape
Artist
Wen Zhengming
(Chinese, 1470 - 1559)
Date17th century
MediumHanging scroll; painting on silk
DimensionsOverall: 61 3/4 × 19 inches (156.85 × 48.26 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-266
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DescriptionFigures in foreground, blue and green roofed palaces half way up mountain.Exhibition HistoryColorado Springs Fine Arts Center, April, 1937.
Liu Hsin-yu, Liulichang, Peiping (modern-day Beijing), China, by September 20, 1933 [1];
Purchased from Liu Hsin-yu, through Laurence Sickman, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] Sickman's purchase record, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Office Files, box 1a, Art Invoices/Vouchers 1934.
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