A herd boy playing the flute

Li Keran (1907-1989)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1980
Height:
69.4 cm  (27 5/16 in.)
Width:
46.5 cm  (18 5/16 in.)
with mounting: 215.9 × 63.8 cm (85 × 25 1/8 in.); with rollers: 73 cm (28 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
ink and slight color on paper

    Item location

  • Yale University Art Gallery
    The Clyde and Helen Wu Collection of Chinese Painting, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Wu[Museum inv. no.: 2002.143.5]

Description

Hanging scroll depicting a boy, in a tree-sheltered area, playing a transverse flute (possibly di (dizi)); in the open foreground is an ox, resting.

Iconclass

48CC7525
one person playing wind instrument - CC - out of doors
48CC73513
transverse flute CC - out of doors
31D11221
boy (child between toddler and youth)
47I21111
ox

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Di [3919]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Kuo, Jason C., ed. Heirs to a great tradition: Modern Chinese paintings from the Tsien-Hsiang-Chai Collection (College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 1993) 80, no. 93.

RIdIM record id

6191