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Reminiscences of Qinhuai River

秦淮憶舊圖冊

1642-1707

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Shitao 石濤

(Chinese, 1642-1707)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Album leaf, ink and color on Song paper

Image: 25.5 x 20.2 cm (10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Overall: 33 x 24.3 cm (13 x 9 9/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1966.31.7

Location

not on view

Description

Shitao’s skillfully rendered composition suggests a sweeping movement from the base of the central rising mass, silhouette of forest, and a bright bend of misty atmosphere under the distant hills, to form almost a continual circle of energy—a gentle vortex. That is a perfect embodiment of the early Qing ideal of a momentous flow, with suggestion of the subterranean veins and linkages.

Provenance

Qin Tongli 秦通理 [early 20th century]

?-1966

C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1966-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Contag, Victoria. Die beiden Steine: Beitrag zum Verständnis des Wesens Chinesischer Landschaftsmalerei. Braunschweig: H. Klemm, 1950. Reproduced: pl. 7

Contag, Victoria. Zwei Meister chinesischer Landschaftsmalerei, Shih-t'ao und Shih-ch'i; ein Beitrag zum Verständnis des Wesens chinesischer Landschaftsmalerei. Baden-Baden: W. Klein, 1955. pls. 5-8

Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Shen Fu 傅申, and Ichisada Miyazaki 宮崎市定. Sekitō 石濤. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1976. Reproduced: pls. 36-39

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: pp. 400-407

Exhibition history

The Painting of Tao-Chi, 1641-Ca. 1720. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (August 13-September 17, 1967).

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).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003).