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Landscape Album in Various Styles: Pleasure in a Mountain Brook

1684

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Zha Shibiao 查士標

(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 1955.37.9

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: Pleasure in a mountain brook, in the manner of Wang Mengduan [Wang Fu]. Shibiao. [seal] Shibiao

Provenance

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

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. cat. no. 107

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: cat. no. 875 archive.org

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.

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

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. 386-390

Exhibition history

Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).

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

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).