Geese at Dawn on a Misty River

Maker(s): Artist: Formerly attributed to Cui Bai (active mid- to late 11th century)

Historical period(s): Ming dynasty, 15th century

Medium: Hanging scroll mounted on panel; ink and color on silk

Dimensions: H x W (image): 102.8 x 164.1 cm (40 1/2 x 64 5/8 in)

Geography: China

Credit Line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number: F1915.25

On View Location: Currently not on view

Classification(s): Painting

Type: Hanging scroll (mounted on panel)

Keywords: China, goose, landscape, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644), river

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. 963, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, P'ang Catalogue, pg. 59, 1915. 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 6 in the object record, this object was reproduced in Osvald Sire´n, Chinese Paintings in American Collections, Paris and Brussels: G. van Oest (1928), Part 4, plate 142.

[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.