Detail View: The AMICA Library: Drinking at Night
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AMICA ID:
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AIC_.1955.761
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AMICA Library Year:
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1999
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Tang Yin
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Creator Nationality:
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Asian; Far East Asian; Chinese
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Creator Dates/Places:
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Chinese; 1470-1523 Asia,East Asia,China
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Tang Yin
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Title:
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Drinking at Night
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Title Type:
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preferred
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View:
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full view
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Creation Date:
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Ming Dynasty (1368-1644);c. 1520-23
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Creation Start Date:
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1520
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Creation End Date:
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1523
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Materials and Techniques:
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Handscroll, Ink on paper.
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Classification Term:
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Handscroll
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Subject Description:
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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)
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Creation Place:
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Asia,East Asia,China
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Dimensions:
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30.5 x 139.2 cm.; L: 55' H: 12'
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Art Institute of Chicago
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Owner Location:
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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ID Number:
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1955.761
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Credit Line:
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
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Inscriptions:
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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.
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Rights:
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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AIC_.E36013.TIF
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