Details
YUAN MEI (1716-1797), WANG GONG and YOU ZHAO (both 18th century)
Yuan Mei (1716-1798) and His Female Students
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 16¼ x 119in. (41 x 302.5cm.)
Signed: "You Zhao painted the figures and Wang Gong painted the landscape"
One seal of the artist: Wang Gong
Inscribed by Yuan Mei with an identification of each figure, dated the first year of the Jiaqing era (1796)
Thirty colophons, including one each by Zeng Ao (1759-1830), Wang Chang (1724-1806), Wang Wenzhi (1730-1802), Dong Xun (1740-after 1809) and Qian Daxing (1728-1804)
Seven poems composed and inscribed by Yuan Mei's students
Frontispiece by Wang Wenzhi
Literature
Yu Jianhua, Zhongguo Meishujia Renming Cidian ("Dictionary of Chinese Artists"), Shanghai, 1981, p. 454
Guo Weiqu, Song Yuan Ming Qing Shuhuajia Nianbiao ("Chronicle of Calligraphers and Painters in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties"), Beijing, 1958, p. 406
Shanghai Museum, Wenwu Chuban She ("The Seals and Signatures of Chinese Calligraphers and Painters"), Shanghai, 1987, pp. 722-723
