Artist: Min Zhen (1730-?)
Date: Qing (1664-1911), dated 1787
Dimensions: Height 290.0 cm, Width 140.0 cm
Material: Ink on paper
Min Zhen, also known by his zi (courtesy name), Zhengzhai, was a native of Nanchang, Jiangxi. He excelled in figure painting, following the style of Wu Wei. His brushwork was ethereal yet powerful. Also skilled in landscape painting and seal carving, he was one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. This ink-and-wash painting depicts the Eight Taoist Immortals in a drunken stupor. Their endearingly comical forms are rendered with clear yet richly substantial brushwork. The work was created in the Dingwei year of the Qianlong era (1787), when the artist was fifty-eight years old.
