Listening to a Stream (Ting quan tu 聽泉圖)
Listening to a Stream (Ting quan tu 聽泉圖)
Listening to a Stream (Ting quan tu 聽泉圖)

photo: Masatsugu Nokubo

Listening to a Stream (Ting quan tu 聽泉圖)
Listening to a Stream (Ting quan tu 聽泉圖)
Listening to a Stream (Ting quan tu 聽泉圖)

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Listening to a Stream (Ting quan tu 聽泉圖),

1839

Dai Xi 戴熙, 1801–1860
Chinese
Qing dynasty, 1644–1912
2000-359
A painter’s ability to evoke the natural presence of sound in a particular landscape scene or in a specific moment often brings a painting to life. Chinese pictorial themes that involve listening in a landscape often reflect quiet solitude and communion with nature. When this scroll was painted in 1839, Dai Xi was serving as an official in Guangdong province, southeastern China. A year earlier, he had received a commendation from the emperor encouraging him develop his painting skills by studying the landscapes he encountered during his travels in that region. Here, a man sits in a riverside pavilion, gazing intently across the water and listening to the cascade of the nearby stream.

Information

Title
Listening to a Stream (Ting quan tu 聽泉圖)
Dates

1839

Maker
Dai Xi 戴熙
Medium
Horizontal scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 29.9 x 93.3 cm. (11 3/4 x 36 3/4 in.) Mount: 37.2 x 115.2 cm. (14 5/8 x 45 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Yung-chi Ch'en in memory of her husband, Professor TaTuan Ch'en
Object Number
2000-359
Place Made

Asia, China

Signatures
signed
Inscription
dated 1839 Inscription: 聽泉水 道光己亥春三月 雲鉏四兄先生屬畫 錢唐戴熙 Listening to a Stream Spring in the third month of the jihai year (1839) of the Daoquan reign Painted at the urging of the fourth eldest brother and teacher of Yunzu Dai Xi of Qiantang [present-day Hangzhou]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist's seals: "Yu Jiangnan Xu, Heyang Guo, tong ming" 與江南徐河陽郭同名 sq. relief "Xiguzhai" 習苦齋 sq. intaglio (right, bottom) Collectors' seal: Fan Daozhan (20th century): "Fan Daozhan yin" 范道瞻引 sq. relief (left, bottom)
Culture
Chinese
Period
Qing
Type
paintings, chinese painting styles, scroll paintings, handscrolls
Materials
paper (fiber product), ink
Subject
landscapes (representations), buildings, figures (representations), streams, waterfalls

– Zhao family (Taihu, Anhui province, China), by inheritance to Yung-chi Chen (Chen Zhao Rongqi 陳趙榮琪) (Princeton, NJ).
–2000 Yung-chi Chen (Princeton, NJ), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2000.

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