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Listening to the Qin (Zither)

聽琴圖

1150–after 1225

Liu Songnian 劉松年

(Chinese, c. 1150-after 1225)

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf; ink and slight color on silk

Image: 23.8 x 24.6 cm (9 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1983.85

Location

not on view

Provenance

Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], Hong Kong, to his daughter Julia C. Chiang

Mrs. Julia C. Chiang, New Jersey

?–1983

(Clark Cheng, Mountainside, NJ, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1983–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. “Listening to the Ch'in by Liu Sung-Nien.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 73, no. 9, 1986, pp. 372–387. Reproduced: pp. 374-376 www.jstor.org

Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: p. 41, cat. no. 18

Addiss, Stephen, Kenneth J. DeWoskin, and Mitchell Clark. The resonance of the qin in East Asian art. New York: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 1999. Reproduced: cat. no. 9 pp. 74-75

Helen Dunn Grinnell, "Exhibition Reviews" Orientations, vol. 31, no. 1 January 2000. Reproduced: p. 72

Handler, Sarah. Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. Reproduced: fig. 17.3, p. 297

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. 61-64

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. p. 61

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).

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

Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

The Resonance of the Qin in Far Eastern Art. China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 16-December 12, 1999).

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