清　費肇陽　豳風七月詩意圖　冊|Odes of the State of Bin: The Seventh Month

Fei Qinghu (Fei Zhaoyang)

late 18th–early 19th century · Album of twenty leaves; ink and color on silk · Asian Art

The album from which these leaves are drawn depicts moments from “The Seventh Month,” a lengthy poem from the Book of Odes about the yearly agricultural cycle. Using the bright blue-green mineral palette associated in Chinese painting with antiquity, the artist created vignettes of labor in tune with the land: the reaping of crops in the summer; the harvesting of ice in the winter; the performance of ritual offerings in the spring. In each of these scenes, small moments of human interaction share the stage with the drama of seasonal change.

Artist

Fei Qinghu (Fei Zhaoyang)

Date

late 18th–early 19th century

Medium

Album of twenty leaves; ink and color on silk

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021