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虎丘十二景圖

Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou: The Five Sages Terrace

after 1490

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Shen Zhou 沈周

(Chinese, 1427-1509)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Album leaf, ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper

Image: 31.5 x 41.4 cm (12 3/8 x 16 5/16 in.); Overall: 36.5 x 49.9 cm (14 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1964.371.8

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

[印] 启南

Inscription Translation

Artist's seal: Qi'nan

Provenance
Binliang 斌良 [1784–1847]
Hou Shigong 侯士恭 [late 19th–early 20th century]
?-1964
(Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1964-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Lee, Sherman E. “Literati and Professionals: Four Ming Painters.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 53, no. 1, 1966, pp. 2–25. Reproduced: fig. 13 www.jstor.org
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. Reproduced: pp. 245-251
Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954: Lee, Chinese Landscape Painting, cat. no. 51: 1-4 (B, E, F, J).

Asia House Gallery, 1974: Lee, Colors of Ink, cat. nos. 26 (B), 27 (E).

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 155, p. 187-190.

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