River Landscape in Rain

Object Details

• Artist

  Zha Shibiao (1615-1698)

• Provenance

  ?- no later than 1972

  Frank Caro Chinese Art, New York, NY, method of acquisition unknown [1]

  By 1972-1987

  Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), probably purchased from Frank Caro Chinese Art, probably in New York, NY [2]

  From 1987

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Dr. Arthur M. Sackler [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Arthur M. Sackler loaned this object to the Princeton University Art Museum in October 1972 for the traveling exhibition “Rarities of Chinese Painting in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,” December 8, 1973-June 29, 1986 and it was assigned the loan number L300.72. See Princeton University Art Museum loan document titled “Report on Loan for Purposes of Insurance,” dated October 16, 1972, which includes L300.72, copy in object file. See also correspondence between, Dr. Joanna M. Gohmann, Provenance Researcher & Object Historian, National Museum of Asian Art, and Chris Newth, Princeton University Art Museum, dated February 8, 2023, copy in object file.

  In the accompanying exhibition catalogue, the object’s provenance is published as “Provenance: Frank Caro, New York.” Mr. Sackler acquired a number of objects collection from Frank Caro’s gallery in New York in the 1960s and 1970s; it is, therefore, possible that he acquired the painting directly from Frank Caro. See Marilyn Fu and Shen Fu, “Studies in Connoisseurship: Chinese Paintings from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections in New York, Princeton, and Washington, D.C.” [exhibition catalogue], (New York: Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1973), p. xi and 152, cat. no. XIII, loan number L300.72.

  There is no Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Gift Inventory sheet for this object in the binders or in the object file.

  Frank Caro Chinese Art was a gallery in New York, NY specializing in Chinese art. The gallery was founded by Frank Caro (1904-1980), who was a longtime business associate of C. T. Loo (1880-1957).

  [2] See note 1.

  Dr. Arthur M. Sackler was a physician, medical publisher, pharmaceutical marketer, and collector of Asian art.

  [3] Pursuant to the agreement between Dr. Arthur M. Sackler and the Smithsonian Institution, dated July 28, 1982, legal title of the donated objects was transferred to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on September 11, 1987.

  Research updated January 31, 2023

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Painter as Poet (September 21 to December 10, 2000)

  Roy Lichtenstein: Landscapes in the Chinese Style (September 29, 1996 to February 07, 1999)

  The Arts of China (November 18, 1990 to September 7, 2014)

  Pavilions and Immortal Mountains: Chinese Decorative Art and Paintings (September 28, 1987 to February 28, 1988)

  Rarities of Chinese Painting in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (December 8, 1973 to June 29, 1986)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Frank Caro (1904-1980)

  Frank Caro Chinese Art (1962-1980)

  Dr. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987)

• Origin

  Anhui province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Painting

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• Date

  1680s

• Name

  Frank Caro Chinese Art, Sackler, Arthur M., Caro, Frank

• Place

  China, Anhui province

• Topic

  Landscapes, Boats and boating, Rain, Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Rivers

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings