WCP4 Illustrations

4/1. Fan Qi and Wu Hong. "Portrait of Kou Mei." Dated 1651. Hanging scroll, ink on paper, 79.2 x 60.4 cm. (+)

4/2. Detail from 4.1. )+)

4/3. Xü Tai and Lan Ying, "Portrait of Shao Mi." Dated 1657. Hanging scroll, ink and light colors ... Palace Museum, Beijing (PE 119) (D?)

4/4.C Qian Gu (1508-1572). Portrait of Courtesan Dong. Album leaf, ink and colors on paper, 25 x 13 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing. (From: Qüanji 7, 136.) (+)

4/5. Zhao Mengfu. "Lady with a Flute." Hanging scroll, ink and light colors on paper, 150.4 x 63 cm. National Palace Museum, Taipei. (D)

4/6.C Liu Yüan, "Sima Caizhong Dreams of the Courtesan Su Xiaoxiao." Handscroll, ink and colors on silk, 29.2 x 74.7 cm. Cincinatti Art Museum. (Lee & Ho 199) (D)

4/7. Zhou Lang, "Portrait of Du Qiuniang." Detail from a handscroll, ink and light colors on paper, 32.3 x 285.5 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing. (Shinü hua 10.)( B?)

4/8. Wu Wei (1459-1508), "Woman Carrying a Pipa." Hanging scroll, ink on paper, 125.1 x 61.3 cm. Indianapolis Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly. (D)

4/9. Wu Wei, "Portrait of Wuling Chun." Handscroll, ink on paper, 27.5 x 93.9 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing. (Shinü hua 11, Yiyüan Duoying 13.) (D)

4/10. Wu Wei, "Li Nunu Dancing and Singing." Hanging scroll, ink on paper, 118.9 x 64.9 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing. (+)

4/11.C Tang Yin (1470-1523), "Court Concubines of Meng Shu." Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk, 124.7 x 63.6 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing. (Shinü hua 15.) (+)

4/12.C Tang Yin, "The Courtesan Li Duanduan Presenting a Peony to the Poet Zhang Gu." Detail from a hanging scroll, ink and colors on paper, 122.5 x 57.2 cm. Nanjing Museum. (D)

4/13. Gai Qi (1774-1829), "In the Spirit of Yü Xüanji's Poems." Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk, 99.3 x 32 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing. (Shinü hua 39.) (B?) (B?)

4/14. Jiang Xün (1764-1834), "Portrait of Qiung Xian." Hanging scroll, ink and colors? on paper, 110.5 x 52.7 cm. Former Yamamoto collection, Tokyo. (From: Naitô Konan, Shinchô shogafu, 84.) (B?) (B?)

4/15. Jin Liying (1772-1807), "Portrait of Lüzhu." Dated 1799. Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk. Fujii Yurinkan, Kyoto. (From: Kôhansha shina meiga sen, vol. 2, pl. 47.) (B?)

4/16.C Hua Yan (1682-1756). "Lüzhu Playing the Flute in the Jingu Garden." Dated 1732. Hanging scroll, ink and light colors on silk, .. Shanghai Museum. (B?)

4/17.C (Ren Bonian, same.) (B?)

4/18.C Detail from fig. 1/1: face of "Mme. Hedong." (+)

4/19.C Wang Gong and Yü Shao, "Yüan Mei and His Women Pupils in a Garden." Section of a handscroll, ink and colors on silk, (fill in.) Collection unknown. (Christie's auction, (+)

4/20.C Another section of the same handscroll as fig. 4/19. (+)

4/21. Luo Ping (1733-1799), "Portrait of Yüan Mei." Inscription dated 1781. Detail from a hanging scroll, ink and colors on paper, 156.7 x 66.1 cm. Collection of the late Shimada Shûjirô, Mukomachi, Japan.(+)

4/22.C. Anonymous, 18th century. "Beauty in Garden." Inscription by Yüan Mei dated 1790. Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk, 81 x 53 cm. Shanghai, Duoyün Xian Collection. (From: Xie Zhiliu, ed., Duoyün Xian cang-hua, 25.) (B?)

4/23. Anonymous. "Portrait of Liu Rushi in Scholar's Robes." From: Yilin yüekan, 1930, vol. 3, p. 3 (B?)

4/24.C Fei Danxu. "Young Woman Traveling in Scholar's Attire." Detail from a hanging scroll, ink and colors on paper. Kozo Yabumoto collection, Amagasaki. (B?)

4/25.C Anonymous, 18th century ("Qianlong Albums Master). Leaf from an erotic album: "Man Teasing Woman by Taking Her Shoe." (From: Album A.) (+)

4/26.C Anonymous, late Song. "Clearing the Mountain." Detail from a handscroll, ink and colors on silk. Palace Museum, Beijing. (+)

4/27. Yuu Qiu. "Scenes from the Lives of Zhao Yizhu and Zhao Hede." Dated 1573. Handscroll, ink on paper, 24.5 x 801.3 cm. Collection unknown. (From: Sotheby's auction, April 1987; also in Shanghai Mus. volume in Tumu III) (+)

4/28.C Anonymous, late Ming or early Qing. "Emperor Minghuang Spying on Yang Guifei in the Bath." Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk. Fujii Yurinkan, Kyoto. (+)

4/29.C Kang Tao. "Yang Guifei Emerging from the Bath." Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk, 120.2 x 66.1 cm. Tianjin Municipal Museum. From: Tenjin-shi Geijutsu Hakubutsukan (Tianjin Art Museum), vol. 6 of Chûgoku no hakubutsukan (Chinese Museums) series, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 25. (+)

4/30. Anonymous, 18th century (false signature of Leng Mei.) "Lan Tangyou Emerging from the Bath." Hanging scroll, ...(see Suzuki Index III/JP30-093 for info. Also catalog.) (+)

4/31.C Anonymous, late Ming or early Ch'ing. "Lady in Bed, Servant with Fan." Album leaf, ink and colors on silk, Ching Yüan Chai collection, Berkeley. (B?)

4/32.C Gu Jianlong. "Man and Woman in Bath." Detail from a leaf in an erotic album. Collection of C. C. Wang, New York. (H)

4/33. Wang Geng, Illustration to Renjing yangqiu, 1600. Woodblock print. Shanghai Library. From: Qüanji 20, no. 45. (B?)

4/34.C Anonymous, 18th century (Album A.) "Young Woman Looking at Album of Erotic Paintings." (This and following three by "Qianlong Albums Master") (H)

4/35.C Anonymous, 18th century (Album B.) "Painting Fans." (H)

4/36.C Anonymous, 18th century (Album A.) "Love Under Blossoming Trees by Moonlight." (H)

4/37.C (same, leaf from Album A: "Scene of seduction."(H)

4/38.C (same, leaf from Album C? detail. (H)

4/39.C Another leaf from Gu Jianlong album (cf. 4/32.) (H)

4/40.C Anon. (signed: "Yingsha," unidentified.) One of six erotic paintings, album leaves, ink and colors on silk, 34.7 x 33.7 cm. From: Sotheby's auction, Nov. 1982, no. 11. (H, also thru 3.52)

4/41.C Another leaf from Album B.

4/42.C Another leaf from Album A.

4/43.C Another leaf from Gu Jianlong album (cf. 4/32.)

4/44.C Leaf from pseudo-Gu Jianlong album, Christie's, June 1985.

4/45.C Leaf from erotic album, anon., Christie's June '82. (my alb. E)

4/46.C Xü Mei, leaf from album (cf. 2/29.)

4/47.C Detail from 4/46.

4/48.C Leaf from same album as 4/40.

4/49.C Leaf from same album as 4/44.

4/50.C Anon., 19th cent.? album leaf: Scene of Voyeurism. (From: Etiemble?)

4/51.C Leaf from same album as 4/50.

4/52. Anon. 18th-19th cent. Man Watching Woman Masturbating In Front of a Mirror." Leaf from an album. From: Etiemble, Yün-yü, p. 115.

4/53. Anon. "Women Watching Copulating Cats." Woodblock print, from ...Hasshû gafu (fill in--from "Tang Yin" vol.?)

4/54. Another leaf from same album as 4/40. )H)

4/55.C Anonymous, 18th century (false signature of Leng Mei.) "Young Woman in Erotic Revery." Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk, 115.5 x 66 cm. Art Institute of Chicago. (+)

4/56.C Another leaf from Album A: "Two Women Looking at Sleeping Man." (rest: H)

4/57.C Leaf from Xü Mei album, cf. fig. 2/41.

4/58.C Another.

4/59.C Another.

4/60.C Another.

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