This depicts Shangguan Wan'er (上官婉兒), who held the imperial consort title Zhaorong (昭容).
Date
1799
date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
Album of sixteen painted leaves with facing inscriptions; ink on paper
Dimensions
Each leaf: 9 3/4 × 6 5/8 in. (24.8 × 16.8 cm)
Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession number
2016.362a–t
Place of creation
China
Credit line
Purchase, Bequests of Edna H. Sachs and Flora E. Whiting, by exchange; Fletcher Fund, by exchange; Gifts of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham and Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, by exchange; and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2016
Notes
This is part of the album Famous Women (列女圖):
麻姑賣酒 The Maiden Magu Selling Wine
紅拂梳頭 Lady Hongfu Combing her Hair
彩鸞寫韻 Cailuan Copied the Rhyme Dictionary
王母瑤池 Queen Mother [of the West] by the Celestial Pond
宣文授經 Lady Xuanwen Teaching the Classics
昭容枰詩 Zhaorong Appraising Poetry
孟光提甕 Meng Guang Carrying an Urn
織女渡河 The Weaving Maiden Crossing the Milky Way
玉真入道 Yuzhen’s Conversion to Daoism
羅敷採桑 Luofu Harvesting Mulberry Leaves
二喬觀書 The Qiao Sisters Reading Books Together
班昭修史 Ban Zhao Writing History
天女散花 The Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers
衛鑠臨池 Madame Wei Shuo Practicing Calligraphy
仲姬內宴 Zhongji’s Audience in the Inner Court
石砫請纓 Madame Xi Volunteering Her Services
References
Famous Women. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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