The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 22, 2024

Pine Wind from Myriad Villages

Pine Wind from Myriad Villages

late 1600s–1718
(Chinese, 1632–1718)
Image: 109.5 x 25.9 cm (43 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.); Overall: 207 x 44.9 cm (81 1/2 x 17 11/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

A figure carrying a qin, zither, walks between the buildings, perhaps intending to play music for the two men seated beneath the pines.

Description

Wu Li, a native of Jiangsu province, was a talented painter, poet, and calligrapher. He studied painting with Wang Jian (1598–1677) and Wang Shimin (1592–1680), two of the “Four Wangs,” leaders of the Orthodox school of painting in the early Qing period. Through them, he also absorbed styles of earlier Ming dynasty masters.

Wu was highly praised by his contemporaries and his paintings were in demand, but his interest in philosophy and religion curtailed his painting activities later in life. Wu Li converted to Christianity and in 1688 was ordained as one of the first 3 Chinese Jesuit priests. He spent the final 30 years of his life primarily in missionary work with the poor.

Although this painting is undated, the sooty blackness of the ink tones and the easy self-confidence with which they are set down on paper echo recognized late works.
  • Ma Chi-tso [1900s]
    ?–1954
    (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1954–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. Mentioned: p. 154, cat. no. 91; Reproduced: p. 113 archive.org
    Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. Mentioned: VII, Lists, 449
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 879 archive.org
    Goepper, Roger. Im Schatten des Wu-Tʻung-Baumes [桐陰畫訣= Tong yin hua jue]. München: Hirmer, 1959. Reproduced: no. 27
    Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. Reproduced: cat. no. 99
    Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. Reproduced: pp. 105, 106, no. 84
    Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. Reproduced: p. 445, fig. 589
    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
    Contag, Victoria. Chinese Masters of the 17th Century. Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1970. Reproduced: p. 34, pls. 57, 57A
    Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸. Un Juhei, Ō Ki 惲壽平 王翬. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. Reproduced: p. 168, pl. 98
    Watson, William. L'art de l'ancienne Chine. Paris: Mazenod, 1979. Reproduced: pl. 566
    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. 248, p. 336
    Clunas, Craig. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China. London: Reaktion Books, 1997. p. 182, p. 94
    Watson, William. The Arts of China 900-1620. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Reproduced: fig. 344, p. 226
    Bailey, Gauvin A. "A Tale of Two Jesuit Artists: Wu Li and Giuseppe Castiglione in Qing Dynasty China." in Culture, Art, Religion: Wu Li (1632-1718) and His Inner Journey: International Symposium Organised by the Macau Ricci Institute, Macao, November 27th-29th 2003. Macao, China: Macau Ricci Institute, 2006. Reproduced: p. 215, fig. 1
    Jackson, Anna, and Amin Jaffer. Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800. London: V & A, Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, 2004. Reproduced: p. 118, fig. 8.19
  • Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 5-December 26, 1954).
    Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).
    Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 14-July 12, 1999).
    Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 20-June 27, 2001).
    1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).
  • {{cite web|title=Pine Wind from Myriad Villages|url=false|author=Wu Li|year=late 1600s–1718|access-date=22 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1954.584