Violets and Mosquito

Unidentified maker, Chinese, 1644 - 1911
Unknown Chinese, Chinese

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Qing Dynasty, Qian-long Period, 1736-1795

Album leaf; colored inks and wash on silk

Sight: 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)

Sight: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind and D. Herbert Beskind, Class of 1936

P.958.344.4

Geography

Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed; left, circular red colophon and square red colophon.

Course History

SART 25, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Fall 2014

SART 31, Painting II, Enrico Riley, Winter 2015

SART 25.01, Painting I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2022

SART 25.02, Painting I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2022

Art History 34.02, Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages 62.03, Chinese Painting, Ziliang (Alex) Liu, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

Chinese Art from the College Collection, Barrows Print Room, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 30-September 4, 1978.

Provenance

Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind (1917-2014) and David Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1958.

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