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Artist
Chen Hongshou
陳洪綬
(1598 or 1599 – 1652)
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Title
An Elegant Gathering
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Description
"The painter Chen Hongshou is one of the celebrated mavericks of Chinese painting history – as admired and loved for his eccentric behaviour as for his strange and often grotesque style of painting. This work, which he signed ‘Regretful Old Monk’, was painted after the fall of the Ming dynasty, in 1644, which he grew up hoping to serve as a scholar-official. To his great regret, Chen Hongshou never achieved this aim but instead became famous as a professional painter.
This work, done in 1647 for one of Chen Hongshou’s patrons, recreates the scene of a literary gathering which took place in Beijing half a century previously. The patron’s grandfather is the man seated to the right end. The guests, who are all identified by name in small inscriptions, include some of the greatest literary men of the day, including the calligrapher and taste-maker Mi Wanzhong (reading in the centre) and the Yuan brothers (far left), pioneers of a modern literary prose style."
—Chester Beatty Library
Date circa 1646
date QS:P571,+1646-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
–1647
Medium Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions 29.8 × 298.4 cm
institution QS:P195,Q1051293
Place of creation China
Notes

There are nine people depicted in this painting, from right to left:

  • Tao Shiling (陶奭齡), layman's name Tao Junshi (陶君奭)
  • Huang Hui (黃輝), styled Huang Zhaosu (黃昭素)
  • Wang Zanhua (王贊化), styled Wang Jinxu (王靜虛)
  • Tao Yunjia (陶允嘉), styled Tao Youmei (陶幼美)
  • monk Yu’an (愚庵和尚)
  • Mi Wanzhong (米萬鍾), styled Mi Zhongzhao (米仲詔)
  • Tao Wanling (陶望齡), styled Tao Zhouwang (陶周望)
  • Yuan Zongdao (袁宗道), styled Yuan Boxiu (袁伯修)
  • Yuan Hongdao (袁宏道), styled Yuan Zhonglang (袁中郎)

In the upper right corner, the painting is signed with:

  • Senghui painted for Buddhist monk Qubing (僧悔為去病道人作)

Shenghui (僧悔) was Chen Hongshou's monastic name. The monk Qubing (去病) was also known as Tao Xing (陶渻).

(Note: The Chinese characters that are underlined here are inscribed on the painting.)
References
  • Julia White, editor (2017). Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou. University of California Press.
  • Elegant Gathering. Telling Images of China (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.
Source/Photographer Elegant Gathering. Telling Images of China (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.
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