Fan leaf, ink and colour on paper,
Signed and inscribed: farmer from Yutian, in the beginning of the autumn in the yiwei year (1835 or 1895)
Inscribed: 'it is cold in the tent at the end of autumn' (from one of her poems named 'Poem of Sorrow and Anger)
18 x 53.5 cm
Cai Wenji (177-250) was a female poet en musician in the late Han dynasty.
During an attack by the Xiongnu she was kidnapped and spent the following years as a captive and concubine in the northern part of China (now Mongolia).
The painting shows her seated in her Xiongnu tent holding an infant.
It is one of the scenes from a poem 'Eigjteen Songs of a Nomad Flute' by the 8th century poet Liu Shang, which tells the story of Cai Wenji.
馮箕 蔡文姬歸來圖 扇面 (1835)
時代：乙未初秋，1835年。畫家：馮箕(清乾隆至道光年間人)。
特徵：題詞「氊帐秋深翠钿寒」，畫面描繪蔡文姬懷抱一嬰兒，出自唐代詩人劉商擬蔡文姬《胡笳曲》所作之《胡笳十八拍》。署名：玉田邨農。
尺寸：18 x 53.5公分。
