Reading "The Book of Changes" at a Pavilion in Autumn / Zhang Hong [Chang Hung]
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- Accession Number
- 1978/2.60
- Title
- Reading "The Book of Changes" at a Pavilion in Autumn
- Artist
- Zhang Hong [Chang Hung]
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1577 - after 1668
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
- Object Creation Date
- 1639
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, Special Acquisitions Fund
- Dimensions
- 115.2 cm x 57.7 cm (45 3/8 in. x 22 11/16 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- figures on landscape
- Physical Description
- Inscription: … painted at Mr. Zhu’s Plum Hut Studio in the winter of 1639. Zhang Hong of Suzhou
- Two seals of the artist
- One collector’s seal
- A solitary scholar, dwarfed by the surrounding autumnal landscape, seated inside a pavilion as he contemplates the ancient classic, The Book of Changes.
- Subject Matter
- An artist whose career spanned the last years of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the Manchus in 1644, Zhang Hong, a native of Suzhou, worked in the literati tradition but earned his livelihood from painting. Studying the profound mystical text of The Book of Changes in the melancholy mood of fall would be especially resonant. Also, fall is a time for government exams, which this person seems unconcerned with.
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- upward
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 768 x 1483
- File Size
- 76 KB
- Record
- 1978/2.60
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"Reading "The Book of Changes" at a Pavilion in Autumn; Zhang Hong [Chang Hung]." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1978-sl-2.60/1978_2.60.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.