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Landscape Album in Various Styles: The Stream of Wuling

Landscape Album in Various Styles: The Stream of Wuling

1684
(Chinese, 1615–1698)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
album leaf, ink and light color on paper
Overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1955.37.4
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Zha Shibiao, a native of Anhui province, moved to Yangzhou later in his career, like so many of his fellow countrymen.

Description

At age 68, Zha Shibiao painted this album with seasonal landscapes in various styles. Painted in fresh colors and wet strokes, all depict typical scenes of Jiangnan.

The mention of Wuling in the inscription signals the “Peach Blossom Spring,” but Zha Shibiao purposefully left out all the accepted iconography for that story: a lone fisherman, cave entrance, and village of hermits. Instead, two men in separate boats are engaged in conversation. Could they be talking about the way to the Peach Blossom Spring, or could one of them be that fisherman blessed by his unintended visit but no longer able to find his way back again? Around them unfolds a lyrical landscape, with willows along the shores, an empty pavilion, a wide-open lake surface, and endless distant hills.
  • Ma Yueguan 馬曰琯 [1688–1755]
    Ding Huikang 丁惠康 [1868/1869–about 1918] and Gu Anmi 顧安宓
    ?-1955
    (C. T. Loo & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1955-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    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. 226, pp. 303-305
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  • {{cite web|title=Landscape Album in Various Styles: The Stream of Wuling|url=false|author=Zha Shibiao|year=1684|access-date=05 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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