Sailing under the Moonlight / Liu Yuanqi (Liu Yüan-ch'i)
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1966/1.91
- Title
- Sailing under the Moonlight
- Artist
- Liu Yuanqi (Liu Yüan-ch'i)
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1555 - after 1632
- Medium and Support
- album leaf, ink and color on silk
- Object Creation Date
- 1555-1632
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Inscription
- Signed: Liu Yüan-ch'i; Seal of artist: Yüan-ch'i; Seals: 1 seal, artist's, following inscription, upper right; 2 seals follow inscription (l.) Ko Ying-tien (17th cent.)
- Inscription: The wind rustles … Liu Yuanqi
- Two seals of the artist
- On the paired album leaf: calligraphy, signature, and two seals of Ge Yingtian (active early 17th century)
- In China the arts of poetry and painting are inextricably linked. As the great landscape painter Guo Xi (ca. 1000–1090) wrote: “Poetry is an invisible picture and painting is a pictorial poem.” In the upper right of this painting, the Suzhou artist Liu Yuanqi inscribed two lines (The wind ... boat) from a poem by the famous Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran (689–740):
- At dusk in the mountains [I] hear the monkeys’ mournful cries;
- Through the night, the vast river flows swiftly.
- The wind rustles the foliage on the two banks,
- While the moon shines on a solitary boat.
- Jiande is not my homeland,
- I remember my friends in Yangzhou.
- Instantly many streams of tears
- Are sent far away to the western shore of the sea.
- Facing the painting is another poem composed by the Song master Su Shi (1036–1101) and written here by Liu’s early seventeenth-century contemporary, Ge Yingtian.
- Dimensions
- 31.2 cm x 35.2 cm (12 5/16 in. x 13 7/8 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- album leaf
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- Landscape painting album with a poem on the left leaf inscribed by artist Ge Yingdian. The landscape depicts a pagoda and houses in a lush forest near a creak under the misty moon light.
- Subject Matter
- In China the arts of poetry and painting are inextricably linked. As the great landscape painter Guo Xi (ca. 1000–1090) wrote: “Poetry is an invisible picture and painting is a pictorial poem.” In the upper right of this painting, the Suzhou artist Liu Yuanqi inscribed two lines (The wind ... boat) from a poem by the famous Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran (689–740).
- Secondary Keywords
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- genres
- geography
- houses
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- objects
- plants
- the natural world
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1258 x 663
- File Size
- 100 KB
- Record
- 1966/1.91
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"Sailing under the Moonlight; Liu Yuanqi (Liu Yüan-ch'i)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1966-sl-1.91/1966_1.91.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
