明 陳祼 茂樹清泉圖 扇|Recluse washing his feet in a stream
Chen Guan
1629 · Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on paper · Asian Art
Near a thatched cottage, a recluse sits on the branch of a tree over a babbling creek and dips his feet in the cool water. A servant approaches on the path behind him with a jug of wine. The couplet, excerpted from a poem by the Tang-dynasty scholar Han Yu (768–824), reads: I sit beneath luxuriant trees to pass the days; I dip my feet in the clear springs to delight myself.
- Artist
- Chen Guan
- Date
- 1629
- Medium
- Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913
