Horses and Grooms
Unknown Chinese, Chinese
Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644
Ink and color on silk
Sight: 10 in. (25.4 cm)
Sight: 50 1/4 in. (127.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Selections from the Peterson Collection, Gift of William Bingham, 2nd
P.942.1.2
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Period
1400-1600
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
Chinese Art from the College Collection, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 30-September 4, 1978.
Provenance
Collected by Dr. Frederick Peterson (1859-1938) (possibly in Japan), around 1910-1929; catalogued by Dr. Berthold Laufer in 1930; acquired by WIlliam Bingham II (1879-1955) in the 1930s [possibly at the time of Dr. Peterson's death in 1938]; on loan to the Princeton University Art Gallery, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, about 1938-1941; purchased by the Trustees of Princeton University from WIlliam Bingham II in 1941 with the stipulation that some of the paintings be distributed to Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire [stated in the Princeton University Deed of Gift, the collection should be officially designated as "Selections from the Peterson Collection, Gift of WIlliam Bingham, 2nd"]; given to present collection, 1942.
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