Horse Rolling on the Ground
after Han Gan, Chinese, 725 - 775
Qing Dynasty 1644-1912
Album leaf; colored inks and wash on silk
Image: 9 7/8 × 7 15/16 in. (25.1 × 20.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 5/16 in. (32.7 × 23.6 cm)
Overall: 12 7/8 × 9 5/16 × 13/16 in. (32.7 × 23.6 × 2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Selections from the Peterson Collection, Gift of William Bingham, 2nd
P.942.2.67
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, center right, red colophons, black inscription
Course History
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums...?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2026
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 51.11, Religion 2.02, Religions of Vietnam, Sara Swenson, Winter 2025
Geography 3.01, Living with Nature, Coleen Fox, Winter 2025
Philosophy 50.18, Animal Minds, Tina Rosenqvist, Winter 2025
Religion 40.08, Fear & Loathing in Religion, MK Long, Winter 2025
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums…?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2025
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2025
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Spring 2025
Religion 1.13, Sacred Movement, Robert Weiner, Spring 2025
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 70.24, Asian American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Spring 2025
College Course 26.01, What’s in Your Toolbox?, Casey Aldrich and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2025
Comparative Literature 55.03, Asian Societies, Culture, and Language 60.10, Eco-Fiction: Stories of Ghosts and Other Beings from Premodern China, Yiren Zheng, Fall 2025
Special Tour: Attitude of Coexistence and Beyond the Bouquet, Winter 2025
Exhibition History
Attitude of Coexistence: Non-Humans in East Asian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 2-October 4, 2025.
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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