Nine Egrets in a Snowy Landscape

Unknown Chinese, Chinese

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18th century

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk

Overall: 102 × 28 3/8 in. (259.1 × 72.1 cm)

Panel: 65 1/2 × 28 3/8 in. (166.4 × 72.1 cm)

Image: 51 × 24 in. (129.5 × 61 cm)

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

P.960.16.1

Geography

Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

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

Exhibition History

Asian Art from the College Collection, Barrows Print Room and Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 5-31, 1974.

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

Winter, William B. Jaffe, Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Owen Robertson Cheatham, Friends, and Churchill P. Lathrop Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 1-March 16, 1986.

Publication History

Donald Hall and Clifton Olds, Winter, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1986, p. 52.

Provenance

Alice Boney (1901-1988), New York, New York; Dorothy Marion Levitt Beskind (1917-2014) and David Herbert Beskind (1915-2015), Class of 1936, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1960.

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