Mountain Villa after Rain

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Yang Jin

Title

Mountain Villa after Rain

Place

China (Artist's nationality:)

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1659–1727

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed by the artist: After rain the mountain villa rises rather late At the small window the light dawn as yet only half warms; The old man still wants his pillow and listens to the oriole’s warble The young boy pushes open the shutters and releases the swallows to fly. On the sixteenth of the lunar month in the Lesser Spring (tenth month) of the year 1725, by Xiting [Yang Jin], age eighty-two.

Credit Line

Purchase, Avery Brundage Fund

Reference Number

1987.145

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