Fei Danxu
Fei • Illustration — Playing Flute under the Moon Fei Danxu (1801–1850) was an itinerant Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty. Fei's courtesy name was Zitiao (子苕), and his art names were Xiaolou (晓楼) and Huanxisheng (环溪生). A later pseudonym was Ouweng (偶翁).
Also recorded as Zitai · Xiaolou · Danxu Fei
Fei Danxu
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- Fei Danxu was born on 1 January 1801.
- Died
- Fei Danxu died on 1 January 1850.
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- painter
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He was a native of Wucheng (乌程 - now Wuxing, Zhejiang). Fei began painting when he was very young in Wucheng. He later traveled throughout Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces to practiced his art. He is most noted for his paintings of beautiful women. Among his paintings of beautiful women is "Twelve Beauties of Jinling," which features twelve of the major female characters in the novel Dream of the Red Chamber. He was often associated with the painter Gai Qi in what was known as the "Gai Fei" school. Fei's younger brother Dancheng, as well as his sons and grandsons, continued the tradition of painting beautiful women, as did Gai Qi's grandson. • Illustration — Yao Xie and his Wives (姚燮忏绮图). Handscroll, ink and color on paper. 31 x 128.9 cm. Palace Museum, Beijing
Work by Fei Danxu is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Harvard Art Museums and Arthur M.
Fei Danxu, Zhong Kui and his Assistants Under Willows
Fei Danxu · Zhong Kui and his Assistants Under Willows. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
Beautiful Lady by Fei Danxu, 1835, hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, Honolulu Museum of Art, accession 8965.1
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- 1.Barnhart: Page 378.
- 2.Cihai: Page 1433.
- 3.Barnhart: Page 292.
- 4.Zhongguo lidai shinü huaji 中國歷代仕女畫集 (A collection of paintings of women through the ages) edited by Guo Xueshi 郭学是and Zhang Zikang. 张子康 (Tianjin: Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe and Shijiazhuang: Hebei jiaoyu chubanshe, 1998) reproduces some of the paintings at nos.161-165.
- 5.Zhongguo lidai shinü huaji 中國歷代仕女畫集 (A collection of paintings of women through the ages) edited by Guo Xueshi 郭学是 and Zhang Zikang. 张子康 (Tianjin: Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe and Shijiazhuang: Hebei jiaoyu chubanshe, 1998), p.11
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