Chinese Lady Playing a Flute, Edo period (1615–1868), 17th–18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, 35 3/4 x 13 in. (90.8 x 33 cm), Paintings, Attributed to Kano Tsunenobu (Japanese, 1636–1713), Academic painters in the Edo period also sought to represent beauties in their paintings, but drew on a continental figure painting tradition instead of using the demimond directly as their subject. Yang Guifei, ill-fated concubine of the Tang emperor at the time of the An Lushan rebellion and most likely first known through a poem by Bai Luodian (772–846), was a metaphor for womanly beauty from very early times
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Chinese Lady Playing, Flute, Edo period, 1615–1868, 17th–18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll, ink, color, silk, 35 3/4 x 13, 90.8 33 cm, Paintings, Attributed to Kano Tsunenobu, Japanese, 1636–1713, Academic painters, represent beauties, paintings, drew, continental figure, painting, tradition, using, demimond directly, subject, Yang Guifei, ill-fated concubine, Tang emperor, time, Lushan rebellion, first, poem, Bai Luodian, 772–846, metaphor, womanly beauty, early times
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