Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖)
Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖)

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Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖),

1796

Huang Yi 黃易, 1744–1801
Chinese
Qing dynasty, 1644–1912
2003-139.2

Information

Title
Searching for Steles in the Tai and Dai Mountains (Taidai fangbei tu 泰岱訪碑圖)
Dates

1796

Maker
Huang Yi 黃易
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
2003-139.2
Place Made

Asia, China

Signatures
signed
Inscription
dated 1796 Inscription: 汶河自岱東而西至大汶口水嚙石露勢比湧潮遣工入山搨得北齊佛經映佛巖磨崖佛名齊梁父令王子椿書元鹿森篆 The Wen River flows westward from east of Mount Dai. At Dawenkou the water hits the exposed stones with a wave-like force. I sent craftsmen into the mountain to make rubbings of the incised Northern Qi Buddhist sutras, the Buddha names inscribed on the Yingfo Yan Cliff, as well as [the inscriptions carved on the Pinle Yan Cliff and Yanyi Zhai Studio] composed by the [Northern] Qi magistrate of the Liangfu district Wang Zichun and calligraphed by Yuan Lusen {or "Lu Sen of the Yuan dynasty"}.
Culture
Chinese
Period
Qing
Type
paintings, albums, chinese painting styles, chinese painting styles
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product)
Subject
landscapes (representations), stelae, mountains

– 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.

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