Lady on a Bench

1813 (Qing)

45.7 cm 100.3 cm

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Yü Chi was a famous painter of beauties. According to one interpretation, this court lady is about to write a love poem on the leaf, which she will then throw into a brook. It will float into the hands of a man who earlier had casually written a similar poem on a leaf and toss...

Drawing

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Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 151]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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