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Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting

Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting

Various authors
1999
317 pages
239 illustrations
8.5 x 10.5 in
This title is out of print.
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Foreword
Judith G. Smith and Wen C. Fong

Contributors

Chronology

The Case Against Riverbank: An Indictment in Fourteen Counts
James Cahill

Notes on the Recent History of Riverbank
Hironobu Kohara

Riverbank: A Recent Effort in a Long Tradition
Sherman Lee

On Paintings Attributed to Dong Yuan
Qi Gong

A Comparative Physical Analysis of Riverbank and Two Zhang Daqian Forgeries
Maxwell K. Hearn

Positioning Riverbank
Shih Shou-chien

The Referee Must Have a Rule Book: Modern Rules for an Ancient Art
Jerome Silbergeld

A Tall Pine and Daoist Immortal: An Examination of a Painting Attributed to Chen Hongshou
Wan-go Weng

Du Jin's Enjoying Antiquities: A Problem in Connoisseurship
Stephen Little

An Early Ming Example of Multiples: Two Versions of Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden
Maxwell K. Hearn

Riverbank: From Connoisseurship to Art History
Wen C. Fong

Connoisseurship: Seeing and Believing
Robert E. Harrist, Jr.

Glossary

Photograph Credits

Met Art in Publication

Summer Mountains, Qu Ding Chinese, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Summer Mountains
Qu Ding
ca. 1050
Cloudy Mountains, Mi Youren Chinese, Handscroll; ink on paper, China
Cloudy Mountains
Mi Youren
before 1200
Scholar-recluse in blue-green landscape, Chen Hongshou Chinese, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, China
Scholar-recluse in blue-green landscape
Chen Hongshou
1633
Remonstrating with the emperor, Liu Jun Chinese, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, China
Remonstrating with the emperor
Liu Jun
late 15th–early 16th century
The Scholar Fu Sheng Transmitting the Book of Documents, Du Jin Chinese, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, China
The Scholar Fu Sheng Transmitting the Book of Documents
Du Jin
15th–mid-16th century
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden, Xie Huan Chinese, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden
Xie Huan
ca. 1437
In the Palace, Unidentified artist Chinese, active early 12th century, Handscroll; ink and touches of color on silk, China
In the Palace
Unidentified artist
Zhou Wenju
before 1140
Scholars of the Liuli Hall, Unidentified artist Chinese, late 13th century, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, China
Scholars of the Liuli Hall
Unidentified artist
late 13th century
Figures, flowers, and landscapes, Chen Hongshou Chinese, Album of eleven leaves; ink and color on silk, China
Figures, flowers, and landscapes
Chen Hongshou
Chen Zi
one leaf dated 1627

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Smith, Judith G., Wen Fong, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, eds. 1999. Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Art: On the Occasion for the International Symposium “Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting” Held on December 11, 1999, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New York, NY: Dept. of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art.