Children jumping rope, late 18th century
Wang Qinyunexpand_more
Ink and color on paperexpand_more
Gift from the Helen D. Ling Collection in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Minneapolis Institute of Artexpand_more 2015.68.2m
Not on Viewexpand_more
Wang Qinyun, a renowned woman poet and painter of the late 18th century, painted
fifteen scenes of children at play in garden settings in this album. The children’s activities include riding on bamboo horses, playing gambling games, performing acrobatics, exercising archery, performing ritualistic parades, playing grass games, bird fighting, playing board games, skipping robe, staging scenes of the success in civil service examination, fishing, enjoying antiquities, fighting, attending school, and building a snowman. These paintings reveal a firm grasp of minute details in the depictions of the children, and even the garden scenes are exceptionally depicted. The colophons accompanying each painting were written by contemporary or later writers, poets and calligraphers. They provide valuable additional information not found in the painting proper.
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- Children jumping rope
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- 2015.68.2m
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