"Glimpses of the Duanwu Festival" by Fang Xun (1736-1799) : commemorative painting or private souvenir ?

Anne Kerlan-Stephens (1)

1 UMR 8155 - Centre de recherche sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine

Fang Xun (1736 or 1737-1799) was a painter from the Hangzhou area who is now known essentially as the author of a treatise on painting, although he enjoyed during his lifetime local artistic fame. This paper details his relationship with a network of friends and clients belonging to the local gentry through the analysis of a painting he realized around 1780, describing a gathering at the estate of his main patron, Jin Deyu (1750-1800).

Mots clés: China; painting; artistic patronage; Hangzhou

Domaines: Art et histoire de l'art

Anne Kerlan-Stephens. "Glimpses of the Duanwu Festival" by Fang Xun (1736-1799) : commemorative painting or private souvenir ?. Phoebus, A Journal of Art History, 2001, 9, pp. 171-141. ⟨halshs-00004172⟩