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The Immortal Qingao Riding a Fish (Qingao chengli tu 琴高乘鯉圖)
Anonymous
Japanese
Momoyama period, 1573–1615
2008-349
Information
Title
The Immortal Qingao Riding a Fish (Qingao chengli tu 琴高乘鯉圖)
Maker
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 46.8 × 22.7 cm (18 7/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
Overall: 128 × 34.3 cm (50 3/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Gift of Kevin G. Carr, Graduate Class of 2005; Eva Havlicova, Graduate Class of 1998; Reginald Jackson, Graduate Class of 2007; Janice Katz, Graduate Class of 2004; Sinead Kehoe, Graduate Class of 2002; Cheeyun Kwon, Graduate Class of 1999; Yukio Lippit, Graduate Class of 2003; David T. Liu, Class of 1999 and Graduate Class of 2004; Melissa McCormick, Graduate Class of 2000; Nicole Fabricand-Person, Class of 1976 and Graduate Class of 2001 and Conrad Person, Class of 1975; Ray Smith, Graduate Class of 2000; Hans Bjarne Thomsen, Graduate Class of 2005; Andrew M. Watsky, Graduate Class of 1994; Gennifer Weisenfeld, Graduate Class of 1997; Xiaojin Wu, Graduate Class of 2011; and private donors, in honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu, Graduate Class of 1975
Object Number
2008-349
Place Made
Asia, Japan
Marks/Labels/Seals
Seal on edge of rolled scroll
Seven characters in ink on label adhered to wooden box
Description
Figure of a man riding on the back of a giant carp whose body curls around the swirl of a large wave. Some bamboo or grass appear in the bottom left.
Culture
Period
Materials
Subject
–2008 Yamamoto Bijutsuten Co., Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.
