Collection
Asian - Chinese
Dimensions
44 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (image)
79 x 19 5/8 in. (overall)
Location
Richard M. Fairbanks Gallery
Credit line
Purchased to complement the Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese art through the bequest of Mrs. Enid Goodrich and the support of Lilly Endowment Inc.
Provenance (back to top)
Bunzo Nakanishi, Kyoto; [James Freeman]; purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2004
Gallery Label (back to top)
醉石圖
偶往多年 [?]，謝太僕拜關。舞戲石不禁，夜飲適升 [?]。七更夜飲醉後書此。 查伊璜
Accidentally (I) went to [?]; (The rock) appreciates that (it was) viewed and adored by a high official. This rock does not forbid people dancing or frolicking (in front of him), During the evening drinking party it happens [?]. I drank until the seventh night-hour. After becoming drunk, I inscribed this calligraphy. [signed] Zha Yihuang
Zha was primarily a scholar and teacher and his extant paintings are few. The chaos during and soon after the Manchu conquest that established the Qing dynasty seriously affected Zha. He lost his house with its magnificent garden but built another garden around 1660 that was famous for its rocks.
This painting soon found its way into the collection of Minagawa Kien, 1734-1807, and it was one of the rare Chinese "literati" paintings at that time in Japan.
