Sage with Attendants Gazing at the Moon
Artist
Liu Siyi
(Chinese)
DateSouthern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
MediumInk on silk
DimensionsOverall: 40 × 63 1/2 inches (101.6 × 161.29 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number49-37
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryArts of China, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT. October 30-December 4, 1955.no.137.
With Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by 1949 [1];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.
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.
Jih Pen Hua Ta Ch’eng, vol.50, pl. 48
Pageant of Chinese painting, Shina meiga hokan (Tokyo: The Otsuka-kogeisha, 1936), pl. 134
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