Spring Mists over a Riverside Pavilion

Object Details

• Artist

  Traditionally attributed to Ni Zan 倪瓚 (1306-1374)

• Provenance

  To 1915

  L.C. Pang Collection (1864-1949), Chekiang, China, to 1915 [1]

  From 1915 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from the L.C. Pang Collection, through C. T. Loo, in San Francisco, in 1915 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 964, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, P'ang Catalogue, 1915, pg. 93. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

  [2] According to an Accession List note, Charles Lang Freer purchased F1915.17- F1915.26 from the L.C. Pang Collection of Chekiang, China, through C. T. Loo, while at San Francisco in April 1915. Payment was made through Leyer and Co. of Shanghai, China. See Voucher no. 3, May 1915. According to Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record, this object was exhibited at The Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois, 1917, no. 71.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Style in Chinese Landscape Painting: The Yuan Legacy (November 22, 2014 to May 31, 2015)

  Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 18 (February 25, 1956 to February 4, 1957)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting, Gallery 14, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to October 4, 1943)

  Stone Sculpture, Buddhist Bronze, and Chinese Painting (May 2, 1923 to February 25, 1956)

  Ancient Chinese Paintings, Sculptures, and Jade Objects from the Collection formed by Charles Lang Freer (November 15 to December 08, 1917)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 (1864-1949) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1640s, 1300s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Pang, Yuanji

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Mountains, Pavilion, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Chinese Art, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Spring

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings