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Landscape in Color after Ni Zan

仿倪瓚設色山水圖

1707

Wang Yuanqi 王原祁

(Chinese, 1642–1715)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

Painting: 80.6 x 43.8 cm (31 3/4 x 17 1/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 217.7 x 68.5 cm (85 11/16 x 26 15/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1954.583

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Inscription

[印]穀詒堂。丁亥清和扈從歸舟寫設色雲林

Inscription Translation

Artist's inscription and seal: [seal] Gi yi tang. [Inscription 1] On a day of mild weather, in the year of dinghai [1707], [I painted this]—a Ni Zan in color—after having been in the imperial entourage and returned to the boat in the aftermath.

Inscription

余年來一友匏系，簪筆鹿鹿。夙夜在公。家無甑石，日在愁城苦海中。無以解憂。惟弄柔翰出入宋元諸家，如對古人。雖不能肖其形神，庶幾一遇，亦寓意寬心之法也。麓臺。[印]原祁之印; 麓臺 [印, 右下]西廬後人

Inscription Translation

Artist's inscription, signature, and 3 seals: [Inscription 2] During the year, I have been living like a hanging gourd—alone and without friends. I stuck my brush in my hair and was much like a common man. I have been spending day and night in the office, seldom dining at home. Day by day, I spent my life in the city of melancholy and the ocean of bitterness. There were few ways to relieve my frustrations except to resort to my brush so that I could move in and out amid the Song and Yuan masters as if virtually coming face to face with these men of yore. Even though I could not achieve a perfect resemblance in form and spirit, this comes as close to an encounter while also affording me a means to record my thoughts and to relax my mind. Lutai. [2 seals] Yuanqi zhi yin; Lutai. [seal at the lower right corner] Xi lu hou ren.

Inscription

1 additional seal of Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 (1864–1949) at the lower left corner.

Provenance

by 1909–?

Pang Yuanji 龐元濟 [1864–1949]

?–1954

(Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1954–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Pang, Yuanji 龐元濟. Xu zhai ming hua lu (16 juan) [虛齋名畫錄 (16卷) = Catalogue of paintings in the collection of the author]. Shanghai: Xuantong ji you, 1909. Mentioned: vol. IX, Wang Yuan-ch'i 15(b)-15(a), pp. 42(b)-43(a)

Pang, Yuanji 龐元濟 and Binglü Pang 龐氷履. Ming bi ji sheng [名筆集勝 = Illustrated catalogue of Chinese paintings in the author's collection]. Shanghai: Mo yuan tang, 1940. Reproduced: I, pl. 14

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. 1954. Mentioned: p. 154, cat. 86; Reproduced: p. 106 archive.org

Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. Mentioned: VII, Lists, 441

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 878 archive.org

Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. cat. no. 95

Chinese Art: An Exhibition of Paintings, Jades, Bronzes and Ceramics: Being a Contribution Made by Smith College Museum of Art to the College Interim Session, 1962. Northampton, MA: [The Museum], 1962. cat. no. 29

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 100, color pl. VI, no. 80

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 444, fig. 588

Sullivan, Michael. Chinese and Japanese Art. New York: Grolier, 1965. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 91, color pl. 195

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 269 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 269 archive.org

Kuo, Chi-sheng. "Wang Yuan-ch'i te shan-shui hua i-shu" [The landscape style of Wang Yuan-ch'i}. National Palace Museum Quarterly 故宮季刊, VIII, no. 4, pp. 17-52; English summary, pp. 7-10. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 29, pls. 21, 21-A, 21-B

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 358 archive.org

Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Tamaki Ogawa 小川環樹, and Roderick Whitfield. Un Juhei, Ō Ki 惲壽平王翬. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 187, pl. 87

Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 251, pp. 339-340

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 419-424

Exhibition history

Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).

Chinese Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1962).

Chinese Art: An Exhibition of Paintings, Jades, Bronzes and Ceramics: Being a Contribution Made by Smith College Museum of Art to the College Interim Session, 1962. Northampton, MA (1962).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 17, 2004).

1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).

Chinese Art. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (January 8-26, 1962).

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983).

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