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Famous Women (列女圖)
Artist
Poems by Cao Zhenxiu (曹貞秀), 1762–ca. 1822
Paintings by Gai Qi (改琦), 1773–1828
Title
Famous Women (列女圖)
Date

The album is dated 1799.

  • Cao Zhenxiu's poems and Gai Qi's paintings (both not depicted in the file) are dated 1799.
  • Wang Qisun's (1755–1817) colophon (depicted in the file) is undated.
Medium Album of sixteen painted leaves with facing inscriptions; ink on paper
Dimensions Each leaf: 9 3/4 × 6 5/8 in. (24.8 × 16.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession number
2016.362a–t
Place of creation China
Credit line Purchase, Bequests of Edna H. Sachs and Flora E. Whiting, by exchange; Fletcher Fund, by exchange; Gifts of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham and Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, by exchange; and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2016
Inscriptions

Colophon by Wang Qisun (王芑孫), 1755–1817 (9 columns, undated; 2 seals):

余夫婦嘗各寫題畫詩以贈屺雲,既已合裝一卷藏之古倪園矣,復屬改君七薌補作其畫,各裝一冊,而求重書之。又恐巧偷豪敚者之睨其㫄也,並求題記以專弆翫。然葛屨一輛而雙璧珍之,無廼過耶。楞伽山人書。
As a couple, we have each written tihua shi [poems meant to be inscribed on paintings] for Qiyun [Shen Shu 沈恕, 1775–1812]. We mounted these poems together in one scroll and stored the scroll in the Old Ni Garden. We then commissioned paintings of these poems from Gai Qi so that we could mount the pictures and poems into an album, and for this purpose we had to rewrite the poems. Afterwards, worried that opportunists might set their eyes on it and take it away surreptitiously or by force, we have solicited colophons from people to ensure our ownership. Although this work is like a cart of rustic straw sandals, we treasure it like a pair of jade. Isn’t this a bit overboard? Written by Lengqie Shanren [Wang Qisun].
王芑孫
Wang Qisun
漚波
Oubo
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This is part of the album Famous Women (列女圖):

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Source/Photographer Famous Women. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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