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Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains
960–85
(Chinese, active 960–985)
Painting only: 184.5 x 56.1 cm (72 5/8 x 22 1/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 260.5 x 77.4 cm (102 9/16 x 30 1/2 in.)
Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer 1959.348
Location: not on view
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This hanging scroll with the towering mountain is a prime example of the monumental landscape style of Northern Song.Description
Monk Juran served the Southern Tang (937–75) imperial house in Nanjing, where he studied with Dong Yuan (active 930s–60s). Both founded the southern landscape tradition, or Jiangnan school, known for gentle misty riverscapes in wet ink.Juran moved north to Kaifeng when the Southern Tang surrendered to the Northern Song, the impact of which may be seen in this painting, presumably painted after 976. A towering mountain dominates the composition, typically representing the style of the Northern Song academy; while the use of long hemp fiber strokes to texture the mountains, wet dots, and round boulders on mountain tops are elements of the southern landscape tradition.
- 960-1279Song government (Shang Shu Sheng yin 尚書省印), Beijing1368-98Ming government (half-seal Si yin 司印), Beijingfirst half of 1600sWu Ting 吳廷 (first half of 1600s)1620–1691Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691]1640–86Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 [1640–1686]c. 1683–c. 1744An Qi 安岐 [c. 1683–c. 1744]1736–95Qing imperial collection (seals of the Qianlong Emperor), Beijingearly 1900sShao Fu-hsing?–1959Frank F. Cho, New York, NY?–1959Katharine Holden Thayer [1898–1985], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1959–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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