Wang Qiao (Chinese: 汪乔), courtesy name Zongjing, was a painter who lived in Qing dynasty China. He was from Suzhou and was active from 1657 to 1680. He is known for his figure paintings and paintings of flowers. A painting usually entitled Lady at a Dressing Table is one of his best-known paintings.[1] It bears an important colophon by the early nineteenth century woman poet Zhou Qi.[2]
References
edit- ^ Published in Cahill, "Paintings Done for Women," p.26. Cahill also discusses and published the painting in Pictures for Use and Pleasure, pp.23-25. It is also available at Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- ^ Ellen Widmer translates the colophon in The Beauty and the Book, pp. 298–99.
Further reading
edit- James Cahill, "Paintings Done for Women," Nannü: Men, Women, and Gender in China, vol.8 (2006), pp. 1–54.
- James Cahill, Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Painting. Berkeley: University of California,Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, pp. 96–99.
- James Cahill, Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
- Ellen Widmer, The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth Century China,Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard East Asia Monographs, 2006.
External links
edit- Minneapolis Institute of Arts Video on Wang Qiao Painting "Lady at the Dressing Table"
- Three Scholars Discuss Wang Qiao painting "Lady at the Dressing Table"
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