明/清 沈顥 漁父圖 扇|Qu Yuan and the Fisherman

Shen Hao

Date unknown · Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper · Asian Art

This fan depicts an encounter between the exiled minister Qu Yuan—purported author of the Nine Songs—and a wise fisherman. Dejected at his banishment from the capital, Qu complains to the fisherman of a world gone mad. The fisherman replies that Qu should take the world as it comes and adapt to changing circumstances. This dialogue was made famous in the literary collection Chu ci.

Artist

Shen Hao

Date

Date unknown

Medium

Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913