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Portraits of Three Scholars: Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi (National Museum of Asian Art)

Chinese and Daoist Art

A hanging scroll attributed to Liu Minshu, Yuan dynasty, thirteenth to fourteenth century, painted in ink and color on silk in the baimiao line style. The scroll portrays the Neo Confucian scholars Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi together. Purchased by Charles Lang Freer in 1916 and given by him to the Freer Gallery of Art in 1920; held today by the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art.

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Hanging scroll, Yuan dynasty, attributed to Liu Minshu, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art 1
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Object Type
Painting 1
Medium (class)
Painting (general) 1
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This source names Cheng Hao directly: "The scroll portrays the Neo Confucian scholars Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi together."

Source Portraits of Three Scholars, National Museum of Asian Art (F1916.584)
Zhu Xi, Figures

This source names Zhu Xi directly: "scholars Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi together."

Source Portraits of Three Scholars, National Museum of Asian Art (F1916.584)

Belongs to Tradition

Source Portraits of Three Scholars, National Museum of Asian Art (F1916.584)

Depicts

Cheng Yi, Figures

The Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art's own title for this Yuan-dynasty scroll names Cheng Yi as one of the three Neo Confucian scholars portrayed.

Source Portraits of Three Scholars, National Museum of Asian Art (F1916.584)
Sources
1. Portraits of Three Scholars, National Museum of Asian Art (F1916.584)
Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art (Freer Gallery of Art)
  • Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art F1916.584
  • catalogue record, medium/object-type description
    A hanging scroll attributed to Liu Minshu, Yuan dynasty, thirteenth to fourteenth century, painted in ink and color on silk in the baimiao line style.
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