Purification at the Orchid Pavilion
Medium
Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
29.8 × 763.3 cm · image: 28.4 × 392.8 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession Number
1977.47
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
By the 1600s, the historic gathering at Lanting, Zhejiang province, in 353 CE was a common theme in Chinese painting. Originally based on a composition attributed to Li Gonglin (1049– 1106), now lost, Wu school artists revived the theme. Fan Yi, the brother of the artist Fan Qi from Nanjing, used delicate brushwork and luminous colors to depict the spring gathering.