Yang Guifei Leaving the Bath

The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of The MCH Foundation

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Yang Guifei Leaving the Bath

1700s

ArtistGu Jianlong (Chinese, 1606–after 1689)

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Medium: Hanging scroll; ink, colors and gold on silk
Dimensions: Painting only: 96.5 x 44.1 cm (38 x 17 3/8 in.); Overall with knobs: 231.8 x 73 cm (91 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
Classification: Painting
Style: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Origin: China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Institution: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit: Gift of The MCH Foundation

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Provenance

Public

Provenance event

Mrs. Becker, suburban Kansas City, by descent to her son, Paul Becker

Provenance event

Paul Becker, sold to Alan Kennedy Ltd.

?–2017

(Alan Kennedy Ltd., sold to the MCH Foundation)

2017

MCH Foundation, gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art

2017–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

Mrs. Becker, suburban Kansas City, by descent to her son, Paul Becker Paul Becker, sold to Alan Kennedy Ltd. (Alan Kennedy Ltd., sold to the MCH Foundation) MCH Foundation, gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

Public

China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta

The Splendor of Chinese Silk – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c

Source exhibition text

The Splendor of Chinese Silk – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 5-August 12, 2018). China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

This painting relates to the legendary love story between Tang dynasty (618–906) emperor Xuanzong and his consort, the beautiful Yang Guifei. Set in what appears to be an 18th-century southern interior, the artist depicts Yang Guifei in a fashionable dress of semitransparent red gauze. Due to the warm and humid climate in China’s southeast, local silk workshops specialized and excelled in making airy gauze garments. Yang’s nude body can be seen through the red robe as she leaves the bath. Her servant offers her a bowl of soup. The presence of a male figure would have been a breach of customary protocol; cross-dressed as a male scholar, the earrings reveal that Yang’s attendant is in fact a girl.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.

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