Flowering Peach and Peonies

18th century

39.3 cm 95.9 cm

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The artist's poem in the upper right corner of this work tells of the intoxicating blossoms of peach and peony filling his courtyard garden. His painting then presents these two lovely flowers in a manner that we never see in nature. This seemingly simple relishing of the beau...

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 173]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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