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River and Mountains on a Clear Autumn Day

c. 1624-1627

Dong Qichang

(Chinese, 1555-1636)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368-1644)

Handscroll, ink on Korean paper

Painting only: 38.4 x 136.8 cm (15 1/8 x 53 7/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1959.46

Location

not on view

Provenance
Gao Shiqi 高士奇 [1645–1703]
Song Luo 宋犖 [1634–1713]
c. 1736-c. 1850
Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperors Qianlong, r. 1736–1795, Jiaqing, r. 1796–1820, and Xuanzong, r. 1821–1850)
?-1959
C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, ?-1959, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1959-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1959-present
Citations
Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. cat. no. 64
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 265 archive.org
Cahill, James, and Virginia Field. Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. [New York]: Asia Society; distributed by Abrams, 1967. Reproduced: cat. no. 2
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 265 archive.org
Lee, Sherman E. 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. Reproduced: cat. no. 32
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 352 archive.org
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. 191, p. 244-246
Gardner, Helen, Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996. Reproduced: p. 513, fig. 15-28
Fong, Wen, Hui Wang, Chin-Sung Chang, and Maxwell K. Hearn. Landscapes clear and radiant: the art of Wang Hui (1632-1717). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. Reproduced: fig. 5, p. 7
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: p. 308-313
Powers, Martin J., and Katherine R. Tsiang, eds. A Companion to Chinese Art. Chichester, West Sussex. UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2016. Reproduced: p. 190, fig. 8.2
Tanenbaum, Mary. Fishing on the Terrace: A Collection of Writings, edited by Heather Parks. [Redwood City, CA]: Stanford University Press, 2018 Reproduced: p. 110-111
Exhibition history

1000 Jahre. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (October 16-December 13, 1959).

Chinese Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1960).

Fifteen Chinese Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts (1964).

Fantastics and Eccentrics. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY, (March 23-May 28, 1967).

The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1979)

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965).

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

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (September 3, 1999-January 9, 2000).

Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717). The Metropolitan Museum of Art (organizer) (September 9, 2008-January 4, 2009).

Silent Poetry: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 14, 2015-April 24, 2016).

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