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Washing the Elephant
Attributed to Qian Xuan (Chinese, 1235-1305)
Ming dynasty (1369–1644) or earlier
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and colors on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 36.9 × 641.7 cm (14 1/2 × 252 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- China
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
