Rulan Pian

Coit, Stephen (born 1948)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

2005

Height:

99.7 cm  (39 1/4 in.)

Width:

59.4 cm  (23 3/8 in.)

(framed)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Portrait of Rulan Chao Pian (ethnomusicologist and Harvard professor), with partially visible Chinese musical instruments hanging on the wall behind her (probably yueqin or ruan, and several types of flutes including perhaps xiao and dizi (di)).

People as subjects

Pian, Rulan Chao (1922-2013) (Musician portrait)

Iconclass

48C723
portrait of a musician
49B43(+32)
professor ( + portrait of teacher, professor)
48C73
musical instruments; group of musical instruments

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Xiao [4103]
Yueqin [3482]
Di [3919]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

For information about the artist, see
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/01/portrait-project-adds-diversity-to-harvards-hallowed-walls/ For information about the sitter, see https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/02/rulan-chao-pian/

RIdIM record id

5644