Fan painting with landscape and calligraphy
| Accession Nr.: | 74.28.1 |
|---|---|
| Type: | painting; hanging scroll ; fan |
| Artist/Maker: | |
| Date of production: |
17th century
|
| Place of production: |
Fan paintings are the painted decorations on fans practical in the heat of the Far East for cooling. The genre itself appeared in China in the Song period when it became a fashion among painters and friends to use the others’ paintings as fans. Later the old fan paintings were mounted on hanging scrolls.