Portrait of Lingzhao | Yale University Art Gallery

mid-15th century

Not on view

Medium: Hanging scroll: ink and color on silk
Dimensions: unframed: 44 1/8 × 18 1/8 in. (112 × 46 cm)
framed: 60 1/16 × 25 1/4 in. (152.5 × 64.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Knight Woolley, B.A. 1917
Accession Number: 1967.64.250
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Muromachi period (1336–1573)
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Sukui no Hotoke: Kannon to Jizo no Bijutsu, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Machida shiritsu kokusai hanga bijutsukan, 2010), 106–112, 169–171, no. 54–60.

Chin-sung Chang, "Beyond Boundaries: Notes on 'Portrait of Lingzhao'," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007): 128–32, ill. frontispiece.

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 297, ill.

Mimi Gardner Gates, The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New York: China House Gallery, 1982), 110–112, no. 50, ill.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls, portraits

woman

Inscription signed with seal, 2 seals in first column of the inscription, not legible.

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