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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Yin, Hong Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Chinese Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1688 - 1768 Gender: M Creator Name-CRT: Hong Yin Title: Hundred Birds Admiring the Peacocks Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1467 Creation End Date: 1533 Creation Date: late 15th-early sixteenth century Object Type: Paintings Materials and Techniques: Hanging scroll, Ink and color on silk Dimensions: Overall: 240cm x 195.5cm Inscriptions: Artist's signature and seal: Yin Hung (seal) Chin-t'ai shih-chia AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1974.31 Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Context: This attractive image was created by an obscure early Ming professional painter represented by only a handful of surviving works. The painting focuses on a corner of a garden separated from a more distant misty grove by a swiftly flowing river. In the compressed foreground, pairs of birds--almost exclusively males--enliven a large weeping tree (a prunus), various peonies, and a fantastic rock, most probably one retrieved from Lake Tai where the action of the water eroded its surface. The birds, accurately drawn from nature, are readily identifiable and include orioles, grosbeaks, hoopoes, woodpeckers, finches, pheasants, and magpies in addition to the prominent peacocks. Painted with outlined passages of brilliant color, the birds and flowers are sharp-edged forms that prefigure the scientific studies undertaken centuries later in the West. Large decorative paintings such as this one were extremely popular among early Ming court and professional painters. Created to ornament the walls of enormous private dwellings, such paintings were often produced as pairs or sets. A richly colored painting on silk now in the Sichuan Provincial Museum has approximately the same impressive dimensions as the Cleveland painting. Because the two share the subject of pairsof male birds in a compressed corner foreground isolated against a river and distant grove, they may have been created to hang together. Since the Cleveland work celebrates the flowers of late spring while the Sichuan painting features the lotus blossomsof high summer, both may belong to a larger group that chronicled the flora and fauna of the four seasons. With each painting measuring roughly eight feet by six feet, the set, when mounted in appropriate silk frames, would have been impressive indeed. K.W. AMICA ID: CMA_.1974.31 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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