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Xin Pi tugging the emperor's robe 辛毗引裾圖
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
When Charles Lang Freer purchased this hanging scroll from Seaouke Yue [You Xiaoqi] in November 1917, it was attributed to the Tang dynasty (618-906) and identified as an episode in the history the tragic Han dynasty heroine, Wang Zhaojun (first century B.C.E.). Since nothing in the traditional representations of the Wang Zhaojun story corresponds in any way with the relationships of the figures in this painting, it is celar that the traditional identification of the subject was incorrect.
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Credit lineXin Pi tugging the emperor's robe 辛毗引裾圖. 14th century. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
