清 倣弘仁 幽谷泉聲圖 軸 The Sound of Spring in a Lonely Valley
After Hongren (Chinese, 1610–1664)
Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Hanging scroll;
清 倣弘仁 幽谷泉聲圖 軸 The Sound of Spring in a Lonely Valley
After Hongren (Chinese, 1610–1664)
Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Image: 40 1/2 x 16 1/8 in. (102.9 x 41 cm)
Overall with mounting: 76 1/2 x 22 in. (194.3 x 55.9 cm)
Overall with knobs: 76 1/2 x 24 1/2 in. (194.3 x 62.2 cm)
Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988
Not on view
Inscriptions after the artist (right): "The Sound of Spring in a Lonely Valley, the first lunar month of spring in the xinchou year [January 30–February 28, 1661], painted for the gentleman Jiaoru, Hongren" and after Chen Shu [jinshi degree, 1649, left] Hongren, a filial son who helped support his mother after his father's premature death, passed the local civil-service examination during the late Ming period but ended his pursuit of an official career after the fall of the dynasty in 1644. Becoming a Buddhist monk as a way of avoiding se