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元 錢選 王羲之觀鵝圖 卷Wang Xizhi watching geese

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Qian Xuan

ca. 1295 · Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

Dimensions Image: 9 1/8 x 36 1/2 in. (23.2 x 92.7 cm) Overall with mounting: 11 x 418 13/16 in. (27.9 x 1063.8 cm)

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art

After the fall of Hangzhou, the Southern Song capital, in 1276, the artist Qian Xuan chose to live as an yimin, a “leftover subject” of the dynasty. Painted in his deliberately primitive “blue-and-gre...

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