Horses and Grooms Crossing a River

Object Details

• Artist

  Traditionally attributed to Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫 (1254-1322)

• Provenance

  1931

  Fukushima Company, New York 1931 [1]

  From 1931

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Fukushima Company, New York in 1931 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note.

  [2] See note 1. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

  Year of the Horse: Chinese Horse Paintings (February 24 to September 2, 2002)

  Chinese Paintings (June 5, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

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

• Previous custodian or owner

  Fukushima Company

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Fukushima Company

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Water, Art, Animals, Chinese Art, Horses, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368), Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), Rivers

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings