Spring Arriving in the Han Palace 漢宮春曉圖

Arts of Asia

Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1717

Yuan Jiang 袁江 (Chinese, active c. 1690–1724)

Yuan Jiang is most renowned for his meticulous “ruled-line painting” (jiehua) of architecture—the only pictorial style to utilize carpentry tools along with the flexible brush. A master of composition as well as draftsmanship, Yuan seamlessly constructed buildings within landscapes of imposing grandeur and unexpected drama. This aristocratic villa and its surrounding garden of large, diagonally swept trees and huge, eroded rocks lies beneath distant mountain ranges that emerge and recede above a thick mist. Within this animated and dreamlike setting, figures in the foreground library, on the veranda, and in the surrounding garden appear isolated in their own tranquility. Such strikingly panoramic but personally accessible images were typically commissioned by affluent individuals of late imperial China for display in the spacious reception halls of their private mansions.

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Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Yuan Jiang
Title: Spring Arriving in the Han Palace 漢宮春曉圖
Place: China (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1712–1722
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk
Inscriptions: Inscribed by the artist:丁酉長至邗上袁江畫 On winter’s solstice of the year dingyou [1717], painted by Yuan Jiang of Hanshang [Yangzhou]. Seal: 文涛，袁江之印 Collector's seal: 陳□□藏書畫
Dimensions: 165 × 99 cm (65 × 39 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Naomi Donnelley
Reference Number: 1944.437
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Osvald Siren, Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles (NY: Ronald Press, 1956-58), vol. VII, Annotated Lists, p. 460.
James Cahill, “Yüan Chiang and His School (Part II)”, Ars Orientalis vol. VI (1966), pp. 197-8, fig. 7.
Jack Sewell, Ming-Ch’ing Dynasties [Exh. cat.] (AIC, 1964), p. (9)

The Art Institute of Chicago : Ming (1368-1644) Ching (1644-1921) dynasties Exhibition 1964

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