The Happy Life of Fishermen / Qian Gong (Ch'ien Kung)
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- Accession Number
- 1985/2.29
- Title
- The Happy Life of Fishermen
- Artist
- Qian Gong (Ch'ien Kung)
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- (active Suzhou, ca. 1573 - ca. 1620)
- Medium and Support
- fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and color on gold paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1610
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Jiangsu (province)
- Suzhou
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Jiangsu (province)
- Creation Place 4
- Suzhou
- Inscription
- Painted on an autumn day of keng-hsü (1610). To Mr. Wen-shan. Ch'ien Kung. (Keng-hsü chiu-jih hsieh szu, Wen-shan hsien-sheng. Ch'ien Kung) Artist's seal: Yü-fang.
- Dimensions
- 15.2 cm x 46.3 cm (6 in. x 18 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- album leaf
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- figures on landscape
- Physical Description
- A group of fishermen and families sit in reeds, resting, playing, drinking, eating, and chatting. Birds fly in the backgrounf, and the reeds bend under the wind. At top center is calligraphic text.
- Subject Matter
- The painting idealizes the tranquility of a humble but pleasant life. The early seventeenth-century artist Qian Gong favored this subject as well as scenes of his native Suzhou.
- Inscription: Painted on an autumn day in 1610 for Mr. Wen Shan. Qian Gong Seal of the artist
- Secondary Keywords
- books
- books by internal form
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories carried
- descriptors
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by physical form
- information forms
- inorganic material
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- materials by function
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people in agriculture or natural resource occupations
- people in science-related occupations
- physical activities
- physical activities by location
- physical activities by specific context
- plants
- scientists and people in science-related occupations
- settlements and landscapes
- transportation vehicles
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- water activities
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- woody plants
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1469 x 711
- File Size
- 105 KB
- Record
- 1985/2.29
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"The Happy Life of Fishermen; Qian Gong (Ch'ien Kung)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1985-sl-2.29/1985_2.29.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
