Keywords: Ren Bonian - Playing the Flute - Walters 35101C.jpg A solitary man sits on gnarled roots and plays the flute Contrary to first impressions this is not an uninhabitable place but a retreat of some sort; at the upper right there is a wall and a tall fence Beyond the man a cliff-face is rendered primarily by the white of the paper between 1860 1880 ink and color on paper mounted on cloth cm 34 36 5 accession number 35 101C 77888 Xu Hongting Hsü Hung-t'ing date and mode of acquisition unknown Liu Song-bu Liu Sung-pu Shanghai date and mode of acquisition unknown Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco China Pavilion 1915 no 285 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1915 place of origin Shanghai China Walters Art Museum license 2D Walters 35101 Ren Bonian Flutists in art |