Ukiyo-e Educational Catalog · Record 136064
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, part 3, insects and flowers, vol. 1
- Artist / 作者
- Wang Gai
- Date / 年代
- 1701
- Medium / 技法
- 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Edo / vam
- Digital record / 画像記録
- 2000 × 1500 px
- Source collection / 所蔵元
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Published by / 公開者
- 森川ミドリ
- Rights / 権利
- Commercial license required
- Attribution / 表記
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Catalog note / 解説
Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden (Jieziyuan huazhuan), sometimes known as Jieziyuan huapu, is arguably the most influential painting manual produced during the Qing Dynasty. Many renowned Chinese painters, like Qi Baishi (1864-1957), began their drawing lessons with the manual. The work was commissioned by Shen Xinyou, son-in-law of the famous playwright Li Yu, whose mansion in Jinling (now Nanjing) was known as Jieziyuan or Mustard Seed Garden. Shen possessed the teaching materials of Li Liufang (1575-1629), a painter of the late-Ming Dynasty, and commissioned Wang Gai (ca.1645-ca.1710) to edit and expand those materials with the aim of producing a manual for painting. The result was the…
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