# Purification at the Orchid Pavilion

- By: Fan Yi (Chinese, c. 1615–before 1688)
- Date: 1671
- Medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Image: 28.4 x 392.8 cm (11 3/16 x 154 5/8 in.); Overall: 29.8 x 763.3 cm (11 3/4 x 300 1/2 in.)
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.47)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1977.47/1977.47_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

By the 1600s, the historic gathering at Lanting, Zhejiang province, in 353 CE was a common theme in Chinese painting. Originally based on a composition attributed to Li Gonglin (1049– 1106), now lost, Wu school artists revived the theme.

Fan Yi, the brother of the artist Fan Qi from Nanjing, used delicate brushwork and luminous colors to depict the spring gathering.