Amorous Meeting in a Room Interior

Object Details

• Artist

  Formerly attributed to Zhou Wenju (傳)周文矩 (active mid-10th century)

• Provenance

  To 1916

  You Xiaoxi, Shanghai, to 1916 [1]

  From 1916 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi, in New York in 1916 [2]

  From 1920

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

  Notes:

  [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1116, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Seaouke Yue Catalogue, 1916, No. 54.

  [2] See note 1.

  [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

  Women in Chinese Painting (November 9, 2013 to April 27, 2014)

  Tales of the Brush: Literary Masterpieces in Chinese Painting (July 28, 2007 to January 13, 2008)

  In Human Form: Images of the Secular and Divine in Chinese Painting (January 31, 1996 to January 7, 1997)

  Chinese Flower Paintings (March 18 to September 22, 1983)

  Bicentennial Exhibition: Chinese Art (December 5, 1975 to November 10, 1976)

  Chinese Figure Painting (September 17, 1973 to January 3, 1975)

  Chinese and Japanese Art--Lacquer and Paintings (August 18, 1967 to October 14, 1969)

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

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork and Painting, East Corridor (February 15, 1955 to August 26, 1955)

  Special Mirror Exhibition (November 16, 1954 to February 25, 1955)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1947 (October 13, 1947 to May 26, 1953)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics and Paintings (November 14, 1944 to May 3, 1946)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to November 13, 1944)

  Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Ceramics (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)

  Chinese Painting and Pottery (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

• Previous custodian or owner

  You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1800s, 1760s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, You, Xiaoxi

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Lovers, Citron, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Orchids, Woman

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings