Listening to the Pines in a Riverside Pavilion

Object Details

• Artist

  Formerly attributed to Xu Daoning (ca. 1000-after 1066)

• School/Tradition

  Zhe School

• Provenance

  Hsiang Yuan-Pien (1525-1590) [1]

  To 1916

  Pang Yuanji (1864-1949), Shanghai [2]

  From 1916 to 1970

  Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) and Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), New York, NY, Washington, DC, and Mt. Kisco, NY, purchased from Pang Yuanji in 1916 [3]

  From 1970

  Freer Gallery of Art, bequeathed by Agnes E. Meyer in 1970 [4]

  Notes:

  [1] The Ming collector’s, Hsiang Yuan-pien’s seal is located on the painting, see Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition (Washington: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973), p. 56, no. 25 (ill.).

  [2] The painting was published and illustrated in Pang Yuanji’s catalogue, Antique Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by P’ang Lai Ch’en (Tang Wudai Song Yuan minghua), vol. 1 (Shanghai, Privately published by Pang Yuanji, 1916), no. 20: “Hsü Toa Ning, Listening to the Pines at the Hermitage.”

  Pang Yuanji’s collector seal is located on the painting.

  [3] In 1916 Pang Yuanji, with the assistance of dealers Pang Zanchen and Seaouke Yue, sent a group of paintings illustrated in Antique Famous Chinese Paintings Collected by P’ang Lai Ch’en catalogue to New York where they were shown to Charles Freer. See Ingrid Larsen, “‘Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures’: Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum,” Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), p. 23. Freer made a selection of twenty one paintings for his collection and advised the Meyers and Louisine Havemeyer with their acquisitions. Freer’s copy of the 1916 Pang catalogue includes pencil annotations indicating that this painting was purchased by Agnes E. Meyer.

  [4] The painting is included in a codicil to Agnes E. Meyer’s will and testament, dated December 23, 1969, copy in object file

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Masterpieces of Chinese Painting (IV) (June 12 to November 28, 2010)

  Masterpieces of Chinese Painting (III) (May 29, 1999 to January 30, 2000)

  Ming Dynasty Paintings (December 4, 1978 to June 14, 1979)

  Chinese Album Leaves and Fan Paintings (September 14, 1977 to April 8, 1978)

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

  Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Memorial Exhibition (September 25, 1971 to October 2, 1972)

  Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hsiang Yuan-Pien (1525-1590)

  Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 (1864-1949)

  Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1500s, 1600s

• Name

  Yuan-Pien, Hsiang, Meyer, Eugene and Agnes E., Pang, Yuanji

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Pavilion, Landscapes, Art, Scholar, Chinese Art, Qin, Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings