清 任薰 海棠小鳥 扇面|Bird on a Rock by a Flowering Branch
The Met
Artist: Ren Xun(Chinese, 1835–1893)
Date: dated 1879
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper
Dimensions: 7 x 20 7/8 in. (17.8 x 53.0 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
A small, light brown bird with a long tail looks down at pink blossoms on a branch
Detailed Description
This fan-shaped painting features a bird and a flowering branch on a light background. The artwork is wider than it is tall, with a curved top edge and a straight bottom edge, though the very bottom center is cut off. On the left side, a small, light brown bird with a long, slender tail is depicted. Its head is tilted downwards, and its beak appears to be near a cluster of pink blossoms. The bird's body is a mottled light brown, with darker brown feathers on its wings and a lighter, almost beige, long tail. To the right of the bird, a branch extends horizontally across the middle of the painting. This branch is adorned with numerous light pink flowers, some fully open with visible stamens, and others in bud form. The flowers have delicate petals and are interspersed with green and bluish-green leaves. The branch itself is thin and dark, with smaller twigs extending from it. More leaves and a few blossoms are visible below the main branch, near the bottom left. The background is a pale, off-white or very light beige color, with faint vertical lines. In the upper left corner, several columns of untranscribed black calligraphic marks are present, and below them, two small red square seals are visible.
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