Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Children Playing in an Autumn Courtyard

Children Playing in an Autumn Courtyard

Original - "Children Playing in an Autumn Courtyard" (秋庭婴戏图), close-up detail of a larger vertical-scroll painting on silk by Chinese artist Su Hanchen (苏汉臣, active 1130-1160s AD) of the Song Dynasty period.

Reason

This close-up view on the bottom left portion of a roughly nine-century old hanging scroll painting is a perfect example of Song Dynasty era Chinese artwork. It is 1,254 × 1,450 pixels in size, and as far as I know violates none of the mandatory criteria for FP status.

Articles this image appears in

Chinese art, History of the Song Dynasty

Creator

PericlesofAthens

• Support as nominator --Pericles of Athens^Talk 14:02, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose. Given that this image is a detail of a larger work, the cropping should be more careful. Spikebrennan (talk) 01:53, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

How so? What was not "careful" about the cropping job?--Pericles of Athens^Talk 07:47, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose It is an unfortunately tight crop and whereas I'd not be too fussed about that if it was a "a perfect example" in this case it ain't. It may be slightly higher resolution than some at Commons, but we do have better examples of this artist's work, let alone paintings of this era. This one, for example, is much more featurable, despite being lower res. --mikaul^talk 09:01, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted --wadester16 05:39, 30 June 2009 (UTC)