Currently not on view
Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖),
dated 1796, but painted ca. 1797
Huang Yi 黃易, 1744–1801
Chinese
Qing dynasty, 1644–1912
2003-139.6
Information
Title
Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖)
Dates
dated 1796, but painted ca. 1797
Maker
Medium
Album leaf; ink on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 12.3 × 14.6 cm (4 13/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
Leaf (closed): 16.3 x 20.3 cm. (6 7/16 x 8 in.)
Credit Line
[Museum purchase]
Object Number
2003-139.6
Place Made
Asia, China
Signatures
signed
Inscription
dated 1796
Inscription:
靈巖高處名功德頂建石龕龕座刻唐長慶元年李澧等題名大中八年牟譡撰方山證明龕功德記清泰二年黃彥輝等字嘉慶元年十月錢唐黃易并識
The high place on the Ling Yan Cliff (Spirit Cliff) is called the Gongde Ding (Acquired Merits Heights). Cut into the top of the cliff is a stone niche {or small shrine}, on whose base are inscriptions by Li Li and others, dating from the first year of the Changqing reign-period (821) of the Tang dynasty. [Other inscriptions] include the "Record [commemorating the building of] the Niche-shrine of Demonstrating Meritorious Deeds" at Fang Shan (Mount Fang), written by Mou Dang in the eighth year of the Dazhong era (854), and words by Huang Yanhui in the second year of Qingtai (935), and by others. Noted by Huang Yi of Qiantang, in the tenth month of the first year of Jiaqing (1796).
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
– after 1988 Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904-1988] (France), by descent to Fabrice Olivier Dubosc (Milan, Italy), after 1988.
ca. 1988–2003 Fabrice Olivier Dubosc (Milan, Italy), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2003.
