元 錢選 梨花圖 卷, Pear Blossoms, Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), ca. 1280, China, Handscroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 12 5/16 x 37 7/8 in. (31.3 x 96.2 cm), Paintings, Qian Xuan (Chinese, ca. 1235–before 1307), Qian Xuan was one of the first scholar-painters to unite poetry, painting, and calligraphy within a single work. In Pear Blossoms a perfect interplay of poetic and pictorial imagery has been achieved. The artist's poem may be translated as follows: All alone by the veranda railing, teardrops drenching the branches, Although her face is unadorned, her old charms remain; Behind the locked gate, on a rainy night, how she is filled with sadness
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元, 錢選, 梨花圬卷, Pear Blossoms, Yuan dynasty, 1271–1368, ca, 1280, China, Handscroll, ink, color, paper, Image, 12 5/16 x 37 7/8, 31.3 96.2 cm, Paintings, Qian Xuan, Chinese, ca., 1235–before, 1307, first scholar-painters, unite poetry, painting, calligraphy within, single work, perfect interplay, poetic, pictorial imagery, achieved, artist, poem, translated, follows, alone, veranda railing, teardrops drenching, branches, face, unadorned, old charms, remain, locked gate, rainy night, filled, sadness
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