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Playing the Qin in a Secluded Valley

幽壑鳴琴圖

1548

imitator of Wen Zhengming 文徵明

(Chinese, 1470–1559)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper

Overall: 132 x 50.5 cm (51 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1969.60

Location

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Description

The poem inscribed in this painting reads: "Ten thousand layered lofty mountains are presented to the cultivated eye, A thousand feet of cascading falls cleanse the dusty heart. May the harmonies of my red-stringed tune Be the humble answer to the pine wind's ancient song." Different versions of this painting exist. Scholars have suggested that the solid renderings of the rock masses and the volumetric mountain configurations as seen here appear more characteristic of Lu Zhi 陸治 (1496–1576), Wen Zhengming's pupil.

Inscriptions

Inscription

幽壑鳴琴。萬疊高山供道眼，千尋飛瀑淨塵心。憑將一曲朱絃琴，小答松風太古音。嘉慶戊申夏四月徵明製 [印] 徵明; 徵仲父印 [右下方] 悟言室印; 衡山

Inscription Translation

Artist's title, inscription, signature, and 4 seals: "Playing the Qin in a Secluded Valley" Myriad layers of tall peaks provide a feast to wise eyes./ A waterfall dropping ten thousand feet can cleanse a dusty mind./ By means of a song played on this red-stringed qin,/ ’Tis my humble response to the primeval sound of soughing pines. In the summer, the fourth month of the wushen year of the Jiaqing era [1548], Zhengming painted. [2 seals] Zhengming; Zheng zhong fu yin. [2 seals, lower right corner] Wu yan shi yin; Hengshan.

Inscription

4 additional seals: 3 of Cheng Qi 程琦 (1911–1988); 1 unidentified.

Provenance

Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691]

Lu Xinyuan 陸心源 [1834–1894]

Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988]

?-1969

(Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1969-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lu, Xinyuan 陸心源. Rang li guan guo yan lu 穰梨館過眼錄. Wuxing: Lu shi, 1891 ch. 17, pp. 13(b)-14(a)

Edwards, Richard. The Art of Wen Cheng-Ming (1470-1559). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1976. cat. no. XLV

Oertling, Sewall Jerome. Ting Yün-Pʼeng: A Chinese Artist in the Late Ming Dynasty. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1980. Mentioned: pp. 308, 310

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. 171, pp. 216-217

Greene, David B. How to Respond to Strangeness in Art: Four Studies in the Unfamiliar. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Reproduced: fig. 3.9

Coleman, Patrick, ed. The Art of Music. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: p. 154, plate 130

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. 270-278

Exhibition history

The Art of Wen Cheng-ming. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (January 25-February 29, 1976); Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (April 7-June 7, 1976).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2013 - July 28, 2014).

Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

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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幽壑鳴琴圖

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