Viewing plum blossoms by moonlight 月下賞梅圖

Item

Title

Viewing plum blossoms by moonlight
月下賞梅圖

Description

Artist's signature (2 characters in standard script)

Ma Yuan

馬遠

identifier

44638

Source

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/44638

Creator

Ma Yuan
馬遠

annotates

(none)

Abstract

Collector's seals

Gu Luofu顧洛阜 (John M. Crawford, Jr., 1913–1988)
Gu Luofu 顧洛阜
Hanguang Ge 漢光閣

Rights Holder

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Identifier

1986.493.2

References

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Vanderstappen, Harrie A. The Landscape Painting of China: Musings of a Journeyman. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 2014, p. 109, pl. 86.

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