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![The painting depicts three fishes below a calligraphic poem. The poem goes: "I once painted Three Fish and inscribed it: painting is what I did in the time remaining after work, poetry in the time remaining after sleep, and calligraphy in the time remaining after carving. This is what I call the three remaining." (in Chinese, "fish" and "remaining" are pronounced the same)](/media/W1siZiIsIjIwMjIvMDUvMjUvM3V6aDd6bnZmdV9kZWZhdWx0LmpwZyJdLFsicCIsInRodW1iIiwiMjQweDIwMCJdXQ?sha=bda759ec12b36bd1 "The painting depicts three fishes below a calligraphic poem. The poem goes: "I once painted Three Fish and inscribed it: painting is what I did in the time remaining after work, poetry in the time remaining after sleep, and calligraphy in the time remaining after carving. This is what I call the three remaining." (in Chinese, "fish" and "remaining" are pronounced the same)")
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Sailing under the Moonlight
Accession Number
1966/1.91
Title
Sailing under the Moonlight
Artist(s)
Liu Yuanqi (Liu Yüan-ch'i)
Object Creation Date
1555-1632
Medium & Support
album leaf, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
12 5/16 x 13 7/8 in. (31.27 x 35.24 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
Label copy
Gallery Rotation Winter 2014
Inscription: The wind rustles … Liu Yuanqi
Two seals of the artist
On the paired album leaf: calligraphy, signature, and two seals of Ge Yingtian (active early 17th century)
In China the arts of poetry and painting are inextricably linked. As the great landscape painter Guo Xi (ca. 1000–1090) wrote: “Poetry is an invisible picture and painting is a pictorial poem.” In the upper right of this painting, the Suzhou artist Liu Yuanqi inscribed two lines (The wind ... boat) from a poem by the famous Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran (689–740):
At dusk in the mountains [I] hear the monkeys’ mournful cries;
Through the night, the vast river flows swiftly.
The wind rustles the foliage on the two banks,
While the moon shines on a solitary boat.
Jiande is not my homeland,
I remember my friends in Yangzhou.
Instantly many streams of tears
Are sent far away to the western shore of the sea.
Facing the painting is another poem composed by the Song master Su Shi (1036–1101) and written here by Liu’s early seventeenth-century contemporary, Ge Yingtian.
Subject matter
In China the arts of poetry and painting are inextricably linked. As the great landscape painter Guo Xi (ca. 1000–1090) wrote: “Poetry is an invisible picture and painting is a pictorial poem.” In the upper right of this painting, the Suzhou artist Liu Yuanqi inscribed two lines (The wind ... boat) from a poem by the famous Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran (689–740).
Physical Description
Landscape painting album with a poem on the left leaf inscribed by artist Ge Yingdian. The landscape depicts a pagoda and houses in a lush forest near a creak under the misty moon light.
Primary Object Classification
Unbound Work
Primary Object Type
leaf
Additional Object Classification(s)
Painting
Collection Area
Asian
Rights
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Keywords
Landscapes
boat
calligraphy
houses
rivers
trees
1966/1.91
Title
Sailing under the Moonlight
Artist(s)
Liu Yuanqi (Liu Yüan-ch'i)
Object Creation Date
1555-1632
Medium & Support
album leaf, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
12 5/16 x 13 7/8 in. (31.27 x 35.24 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
Label copy
Gallery Rotation Winter 2014
Inscription: The wind rustles … Liu Yuanqi
Two seals of the artist
On the paired album leaf: calligraphy, signature, and two seals of Ge Yingtian (active early 17th century)
In China the arts of poetry and painting are inextricably linked. As the great landscape painter Guo Xi (ca. 1000–1090) wrote: “Poetry is an invisible picture and painting is a pictorial poem.” In the upper right of this painting, the Suzhou artist Liu Yuanqi inscribed two lines (The wind ... boat) from a poem by the famous Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran (689–740):
At dusk in the mountains [I] hear the monkeys’ mournful cries;
Through the night, the vast river flows swiftly.
The wind rustles the foliage on the two banks,
While the moon shines on a solitary boat.
Jiande is not my homeland,
I remember my friends in Yangzhou.
Instantly many streams of tears
Are sent far away to the western shore of the sea.
Facing the painting is another poem composed by the Song master Su Shi (1036–1101) and written here by Liu’s early seventeenth-century contemporary, Ge Yingtian.
Subject matter
In China the arts of poetry and painting are inextricably linked. As the great landscape painter Guo Xi (ca. 1000–1090) wrote: “Poetry is an invisible picture and painting is a pictorial poem.” In the upper right of this painting, the Suzhou artist Liu Yuanqi inscribed two lines (The wind ... boat) from a poem by the famous Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran (689–740).
Physical Description
Landscape painting album with a poem on the left leaf inscribed by artist Ge Yingdian. The landscape depicts a pagoda and houses in a lush forest near a creak under the misty moon light.
Primary Object Classification
Unbound Work
Primary Object Type
leaf
Additional Object Classification(s)
Painting
Collection Area
Asian
Rights
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://umma.umich.edu/request-image for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
Keywords
Landscapes
boat
calligraphy
houses
rivers
trees
