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Ramblers over a Winding Stream

before 1330

Luo Zhichuan

(Chinese, active 1280s–1320s)
China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Album leaf; ink on silk
Painting only: 24.5 x 25.2 cm (9 5/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1915.536
Location: Not on view

Description

This album leaf is one of few surviving paintings by Luo Zichuan. During the Yuan dynasty, the Luo family of painters in Jiangxi province, in Southern China, had a network of patrons extending their reputation all the way to the capital city of Beijing.

The small, rounded figures crossing the bridge on the right are gentlemen enjoying a ramble, rather than ascetics or travelers. The composition is dominated in the center foreground by “crab-claw” trees with knotty trunks and twisting branches. Their robust forms show Luo’s connection to the earlier master, Guo Xi (about 1020–about 1090).
  • Duan Fang 端方 [1861–1911]
    Dr. J. C. [John Calvin] Ferguson [福開森, 1866–1945]
    H. W. [Henry Watson] Kent [1866–1948] as agent for the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
    ?–1915
    John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1915–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    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. 51, cat. no. 28
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    Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968)
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