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Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf C (previous leaf 6)

山水圖冊

1668

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Xiao Yuncong 蕭雲從

(Chinese, 1596–1673)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Album leaf, ink and light color on paper

Overall: 21 x 15.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1955.302.6

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and 8 seals: Leaf F. Bit by bit, returning sails are lowered;/ In the deserted village the sun begins to set./ I lead my donkey across a bridge,/ I'll get drunk with friends at a country house. Yuncong [seal] Xiao Yuncong

Inscription

9 additional seals: 2 of Chen Yixi 陳奕禧 (1646-1709); 4 of Li Yufen 李玉棻 [Li Yunhu 李韵湖] (active mid-1800s); 3 unidentified.

Provenance

Chen Yixi 陳奕禧 [1648–1709]

Li Yufen 李玉棻 [mid-1800s]

Wu Hufan 吳湖帆 [1894–1968]

Qin Tongli 秦通理 [early 1900s]

?-1955

(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1955-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. “An Album of Landscapes by Hsiao Yün-Ts'ung.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 44, no. 6, 1957, pp. 121–125. Mentioned: pp. 121-125; Reproduced: p. 123 www.jstor.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: cat. no. 874 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. p. 119, no. 96

Rosenzweig, Daphne Lange. "A Landscape Handscroll by Hsiao Yün-ts'ung." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 32, no. 1 (1974-75): pp. 34-56. Reproduced: pp. 43, 44, 51, figs. 10-12

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. 38 (B)

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. 224, pp. 300-301

Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 351-359

Exhibition history

Conference on Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1974).

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).

The Colors of Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).