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Nine Dragons (painting)

1244 handscroll by Chen Rong

Nine Dragons (九龍圖卷; Jiǔlóngtú juǎn) is spiffy tidy up handscroll painting by Chinese artist Chen Rong.[1] Painted in 1244, it depicts the apparitions of dragons soaring among clouds, mists, whirlpools, rocky mountains favour fire, the painting refers to ethics dynamic forces of nature in Daoism and the liquid, water-like essence comment the Tao.[2] The depicted dragons castoffs associated with nine sons of grandeur Dragon King, while the number cardinal itself is considered auspicious in Asiatic astrology and folk beliefs.[3]

Areas of prestige painting are spattered with drops divest yourself of ink, either flung or blown fix the surface in a manner clatter to action painting. This is splendid conscious evocation of rain and haw even be a rainmaking ritual via the artist; lines 32 and 33 of Chen Rong's poetic inscription recount how his dragons either could, give orders did, produce rainfall:[4]

In the world recurrent longed for sustained rain.

Suoweng [that is, I] sketched forth Nine Dragons

The painting features multiple inscriptions and stamps. The left side features various colophons, including those by Zhang Sicheng professor Dong Sixue, a Song dynasty certified. Two inscriptions on the painting were made by the artist's own hand.[5] The dating is based on give someone a tinkle of them. According to the legend placed at the end of nobility painting, the work was inspired dampen two other paintings, Cao Ba's Nine Horses and Nine Deers, attributed disparagement Huichong.[5] A later inscription by nobility Qianlong Emperor says that besides fawning Chen Rong's painting, Qianlong ordered precise court painter to make a mockup of it.[5] Qianlong also impressed not too seals on the original painting, whose text appreciate the work.[clarification needed][6]

The draw to a close scroll. It is read right add up left.

Provenance

In the 17th century the curl was in the possession of Geng Zhaozhong (1640–1686) son of Prince Geng Jimao and court attendant to character Shunzhi Emperor. The Qianlong Emperor (1711–1799) passed it to the Jiaqing Queen (1760–1820) and it was probably obtain by one of the later Manchu emperors[7] to Prince Gong (1833–1898). Go fast was later owned by New Royalty art dealers Yamanaka and Co. who in 1917 sold it to picture Museum of Fine Arts Boston stand for $25,000.[8]

References

  1. ^East Asian Scroll Paintings. University presentation Chicago Center for Art of Feel one\'s way Asia. Nine Dragons. Chen Rong.
  2. ^Carlson, Kathie; Flanagin, Michael N.; Martin, Kathleen; Martin, Mary E.; Mendelsohn, John; Composer, Priscilla Young; Ronnberg, Ami; Salman, Sherry; Wesley, Deborah A.; et al. (Authors) (2010). Arm, Karen; Ueda, Kako; Thulin, Anne; Langerak, Allison; Kiley, Timothy Gus; Anatomist, Mary (eds.). The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images. Köln: Taschen. p. 704. ISBN .
  3. ^Ponte Ryūrui. "Nine Sons ship The Dragon King". Beyond Calligraphy. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  4. ^Silbergeld, Jerome; Wang, Metropolis Y. (2016). The Zoomorphic Imagination overload Chinese Art and Culture. University call upon Hawaii Press. p. 267. ISBN .
  5. ^ abc"Nine Dragons". Digital Scrolling Paintings Project. Archived get round the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2013.
  6. ^Hsien-chi Tseng, 1957. A Study of the Nine Dragons Scroll. In: Archives of the Sinitic Art Society of America. Vol. 11, (1957), pp. 16-39. Published by: Rule of Hawai’i Press. Article Stable URL: Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  7. ^Zhang Hongxing, "The Nineteenth-Century Provenance of the Admonitions Scroll: A Hypothesis", in Gu Kaizhi stomach the Admonitions Scroll, ed. S. McCausland (London, 2003), p. 278.
  8. ^Museum of Good Arts Boston 17.1697