Tang Yin / Drinking at Night / Ming Dynasty (1368-1644);c. 1520-23

Tang Yin
Drinking at Night
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644);c. 1520-23
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Creator Name: Tang Yin
Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Chinese
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Chinese; 1470-1523 Asia,East Asia,China
Creator Active Place: Asia,East Asia,China
Creator Name-CRT: Tang Yin
Title: Drinking at Night
Title Type: preferred
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1520
Creation End Date: 1523
Creation Date: Ming Dynasty (1368-1644);c. 1520-23
Creation Place: Asia,East Asia,China
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: Handscroll
Materials and Techniques: Handscroll, Ink on paper.
Dimensions: 30.5 x 139.2 cm.; L: 55' H: 12'
Inscriptions: The painting was owned by Geng Zhaozhong in the seventeenth century, and entered the imperial Qing collection in the eighteenth century (it is still accompanied by its imperial palace wrapper of blue silk, inscribed by the scholar-official Zhang Zhao (1691-1745) in 1744, and is bound with a Qianlong-inscribed jade pin.
AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 1955.761
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html
Subject Description: The painting depicts a scholar drinking at night in an elegant pavilion; he is accompanied by several female servants. The scroll is followed by a long poem inscribed by the artist. The scholar in the pavilion is clearly Su Shi (Su Dongpo, 1036-1101), the famous Northern Song dynasty poet, and the painting illustrates his poem, 'Drinking on an Evening in Spring' Quoting Su Shi's poem, Tang Yin writes,The ancients have words that get to the point,Urging people to grasp candles and make merry through the night:'A quarter of an hour of a spring evening is worth a thousand strings of cash.'I say, 'Even with a thousand, you can't buy it back.' (A. Murck, 1983)
AMICA ID: AIC_.1955.761
AMICA Library Year: 1999
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999

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