Gai Qi
Illustration — Gai Qi • Illustration — Two Beauties in a Garden, detail Gai Qi (1774–1829), courtesy name Bowen (伯蕰), art names Qiliang (七郎) and Yuhu Waishi (玉壶外史), was a poet and painter born in western China during the Qing dynasty. His paintings mainly concerns plants, beauty, and figures. However, he also did numerous landscapes.
Also recorded as Boyun · Xiangbai
Gai Qi
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- Born
- 1774
- Died
- 1829
- Nationality
- Qing dynasty
- Occupation
- poet · painter
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Illustration — Gai Qi • Illustration — Two Beauties in a Garden, detail Gai Qi (1774–1829), courtesy name Bowen (伯蕰), art names Qiliang (七郎) and Yuhu Waishi (玉壶外史), was a poet and painter born in western China during the Qing dynasty. His paintings mainly concerns plants, beauty, and figures. However, he also did numerous landscapes.
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Born in 1774, died in 1829.
Work by Gai Qi is recorded in the collections of Ashmolean Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and National Museum in Warsaw.
Exhibit in the Museu do Oriente - Lisbon, Portugal. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.
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Gai Qi - Lady Leaning on a Plum Tree - 1957.51.5 - Yale University Art Gallery
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- 1.Latter days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, edited by Marsha Weidner et al. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1994. p.386.
- 2.Ellen Widmer, The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth Century China Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard East Asia Center, 2006, pp.148-151. Widmer translates some of the poems by Zhou Qi
- 3.Hidden Meanings of Love and Death in Chinese Painting: Selections from the Marilyn and Roy Papp Collection. Edited by Chun-yi Lee. (Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 2013) discussed the album and reproduces six of the plates, pp.36-42.
- 4.Ellen Widmer, "Considering a Coincidence: The 'Female Reading Public' Circa 1828," in Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan edited by Judith T. Zeitlin and Lydia H. Liu. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard East Asia Center, 2003, pp.387-88.
- 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), pp.10-11.
- 6.Girl Arranging Flowers. www.metmuseum.org.
- 7.Celestial Maiden LACMA Collections. collections.lacma.org.
- 8.Flowers. emuseum.cornell.edu.
- 9.Yuanji Appreciating Poems The Palace Museum. en.dpm.org.cn.
- 10.album; painting British Museum. The British Museum.
- 11.Exchange: Lady in Her Study with Attendants. exchange.umma.umich.edu.
- 12.Yang Guifei. collections.mfa.org.
- 13.Red-robed Buddha (2019-93). artmuseum.princeton.edu.
- 14.Figures after Chen Hongshou. Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford(45) Oxford
- China on-site
- 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).
- Hidden Meanings of Love and Death in Chinese Painting: Selections from the Marilyn and Roy Papp Collection. Edited by Chun-yi Lee. (Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 2013), esp. pp. 36–42.
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