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Purification at the Orchid Pavilion
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By the 1600s, the historic gathering at Lanting, Zhejiang province, in 353 CE was a common theme in Chinese painting. Originally based on a composition attributed to Li Gonglin (1049– 1106), now lost, Wu school artists revived the theme. Fan Yi, the brother of the artist Fan Qi from Nanjing, used delicate brushwork and luminous colors to depict the spring gathering.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePurification at the Orchid Pavilion (蘭亭修禊圖), 1671. Fan Yi (Chinese, c. 1615–before 1688). Handscroll; ink and color on silk; image: 28.4 x 392.8 cm (11 3/16 x 154 5/8 in.); overall: 29.8 x 763.3 cm (11 3/4 x 300 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977.47
