A Vignette of Life on the Frontier

A folding fan painted in ink and color on paper shows a man in a blue robe and wide hat raising a long whip toward a black horse that stands in grassland. A gnarled, twisted pine fills the left side, with a grove of trees behind them. The painting is seen on a fan with red lacquered sticks and a carved, gilt-inscribed guard.

Look closer: Red seal stamps appear near the left edge and the right side of the fan, and a line of small inscription characters runs along the lower left.

Artist

Jiao Bingzhen

Date

c. 1717–22

Medium

Folding fan; ink and color on paper

Source

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Size

3400 × 2363 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Eleanor and Morris Everett