Collection: 1920s China, Republic period

This type of paint on silk exemplifies the meiren hua tradition, depicting an elegant woman in quiet contemplation amidst a richly autumnal setting. The genre, popular through the late Qing and into the Republic period, drew on seasonal motifs and classical garden architecture to evoke poetic associations of transience, longing, and refined feminine sensibility within established conventions of Chinese painting on silk.

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