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The Xuehong Pavilion in a Scholar's Garden  1831

by Qian Du

The name of this garden alludes to a poem by Su Shi (1036–1101), a prominent scholar-official who was censored for his political activism and renowned for his brilliant poetry and prose. In one of his most poignant poems, he compared the fleeting traces of human events to the footprints of geese (hong) left on snow (xue). [br] The windows of the foreground building offer ...
Size: 
7 7/8 × 32 3/8 in.
Medium: 
Handscroll; ink and colors on gold-spattered paper
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago