photo: Masatsugu Nokubo
Information
- Title
- Black Cat
- Object Number
- y1947-65
- Maker
- Min Zhen 閔貞
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dates
- undated; 18th century
- Dimensions
- Painting: 78.5 x 38.5 cm. (30 7/8 x 15 3/16 in.) Mount: 231 x 58.2 cm. (90 15/16 x 22 15/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of DuBois Schanck Morris, Class of 1893
- Culture
- Chinese
- Period
- Qing dynasty
- Place made
- Asia, China
- Signatures
- signed: Min Zhen
- Marks/Labels/Seals
- 2 artist's seals under signature: 1 square yin ("Min Zhen"); 1 square yang ("zheng *")
Thirteen characters in ink on label adhered to edge of rolled scroll
1898 – ca. 1926 acquired in China by DuBois Schanck Morris (1873-1956), based in Anhui, China; 1947 gift to Princeton University Art Museum
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