Drinking at Night

COLLECTION NAME:

The AMICA Library

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AMICO~1~1

The AMICA Library

Collection

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AMICA ID:

AIC_.1955.761

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AIC_.1955.761

AMICA ID

false

AMICA Library Year:

1999

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1999

AMICA Library Year

false

Object Type:

Paintings

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Paintings

Object Type

false

Creator Name:

Tang Yin

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Tang Yin

Creator Name

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Creator Nationality:

Asian; Far East Asian; Chinese

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Asian; Far East Asian; Chinese

Creator Nationality

false

Creator Dates/Places:

Chinese; 1470-1523 Asia,East Asia,China

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Chinese; 1470-1523 Asia,East Asia,China

Creator Dates/Places

false

Creator Name-CRT:

Tang Yin

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Tang Yin

Creator Name-CRT

false

Title:

Drinking at Night

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Drinking at Night

Title

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Title Type:

preferred

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preferred

Title Type

false

View:

full view

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full view

View

false

Creation Date:

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644);c. 1520-23

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Ming Dynasty (1368-1644);c. 1520-23

Creation Date

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Creation Start Date:

1520

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1520

Creation Start Date

false

Creation End Date:

1523

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1523

Creation End Date

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Materials and Techniques:

Handscroll, Ink on paper.

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Handscroll, Ink on paper.

Materials and Techniques

false

Classification Term:

Handscroll

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Handscroll

Classification Term

false

Subject Description:

The painting depicts a scholar drinking at night in an elegant pavilion; he is accompanied by several female servants. The scroll is followed by a long poem inscribed by the artist. The scholar in the pavilion is clearly Su Shi (Su Dongpo, 1036-1101), the famous Northern Song dynasty poet, and the painting illustrates his poem, 'Drinking on an Evening in Spring' Quoting Su Shi's poem, Tang Yin writes,The ancients have words that get to the point,Urging people to grasp candles and make merry through the night:'A quarter of an hour of a spring evening is worth a thousand strings of cash.'I say, 'Even with a thousand, you can't buy it back.' (A. Murck, 1983)

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The painting depicts a scholar drinking at night in an elegant pavilion; he is accompanied by several female servants. The scroll is followed by a long poem inscribed by the artist. The scholar in the pavilion is clearly Su Shi (Su Dongpo, 1036-1101), the famous Northern Song dynasty poet, and the painting illustrates his poem, 'Drinking on an Evening in Spring' Quoting Su Shi's poem, Tang Yin writes,The ancients have words that get to the point,Urging people to grasp candles and make merry through the night:'A quarter of an hour of a spring evening is worth a thousand strings of cash.'I say, 'Even with a thousand, you can't buy it back.' (A. Murck, 1983)

Subject Description

false

Creation Place:

Asia,East Asia,China

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Asia,East Asia,China

Creation Place

false

Dimensions:

30.5 x 139.2 cm.; L: 55' H: 12'

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30.5 x 139.2 cm.; L: 55' H: 12'

Dimensions

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AMICA Contributor:

The Art Institute of Chicago

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The Art Institute of Chicago

AMICA Contributor

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Owner Location:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Chicago, Illinois, USA

Owner Location

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ID Number:

1955.761

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1955.761

ID Number

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Credit Line:

The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation

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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation

Credit Line

false

Inscriptions:

The painting was owned by Geng Zhaozhong in the seventeenth century, and entered the imperial Qing collection in the eighteenth century (it is still accompanied by its imperial palace wrapper of blue silk, inscribed by the scholar-official Zhang Zhao (1691-1745) in 1744, and is bound with a Qianlong-inscribed jade pin.

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The painting was owned by Geng Zhaozhong in the seventeenth century, and entered the imperial Qing collection in the eighteenth century (it is still accompanied by its imperial palace wrapper of blue silk, inscribed by the scholar-official Zhang Zhao (1691-1745) in 1744, and is bound with a Qianlong-inscribed jade pin.

Inscriptions

false

Rights:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html

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<a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html"target="_new">http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html</a>

Rights

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