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Jan Stuart

Jan Stuart is the Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art.

Cicada on tree branch; Wang Zhen (1867–1938); China, modern period, autumn 1919; fan mounted as album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper (Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Freer Gallery of Art, F1998.222.2)

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