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Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains

溪山蘭若圖

960–985

Juran 巨然

(Chinese, active 960–985)

China, Northern Song dynasty

(960-1127)

Hanging scroll, ink on silk

Painting only: 184.5 x 56.1 cm (72 5/8 x 22 1/16 in.); Overall: 260.5 x 68 cm (102 9/16 x 26 3/4 in.)

Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer 1959.348

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

The upper portion of the scroll: the two small characters, “Ju wu 巨五”, written near the large seal. Written by a functionary in Shang Shu Sheng (the Department of State Affairs) when the painting was first received.

Inscription

The upper portion of the scroll: the large seal, “Shang Shu Sheng yin 尚書省印” (seal of the Department of State Affairs)

Inscription

The upper portion of the scroll: the half-seal “Si yin 司印”, seen along a border. Attributed to 典禮紀察司 of Ming dynasty.

Provenance

960-1279

Song government (Shang Shu Sheng yin 尚書省印), Beijing

1368-98

Ming government (half-seal Si yin 司印), Beijing

first half of 1600s

Wu Ting 吳廷 (first half of 1600s)

1620-1691

Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691]

1640-86

Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 [1640–1686]

c. 1683-c. 1744

An Qi 安岐 [c. 1683–c. 1744]

1736-95

Qing imperial collection (seals of the Qianlong Emperor), Beijing

early 1900s

Shao Fu-hsing

?-1959

Frank F. Cho, New York, NY

?-1959

Katharine Holden Thayer [1898-1985], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1959-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. cat. no. 13, p. 21

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 258 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. 258 archive.org

Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. cat. no. 1

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 339 archive.org

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. Reproduced: cat. no. 11, pp. 15-19

Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 50–51

Shanghai bo wu guan. Han mo hui cui: xi du Meiguo cang Zhongguo Wu dai Song Yuan shu hua zhen pin [翰墨薈萃: 细读美国藏中国五代宋元书画珍品 = Masterpieces of early Chinese painting and calligraphy in American collections]. Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2012. Reproduced: cat no. 4, pp. 87-88

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: pp. 22–28

Li, Song,et.al. A History of Chinese Art. Translated by Simon Yin and Jane Elliott. Cambridge,UK; NY: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Mention: p. 956; Reproduced: p. 957, III.71

Exhibition history

Chinese Landscape Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1954).

Chinese Painting, Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1981). Photo-reproduction only on view; reproduced in catalogue, no. 19, p. 32.

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 16-October 28, 2003).

The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981).

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).

Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections. Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China (organizer) (November 1, 2012-January 3, 2013).

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