The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Reminiscences of Qinhuai River

Reminiscences of Qinhuai River

1642–1707
(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 1966.31.8
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The figure in the boat scans the cliff seeking a glimpse of a final plum blossom of the season.

Description

This album leaf was probably created in 1695 for a friend Shitao had traveled with to visit ancient sites along the Qinhuai River from the Six Dynasties period. A tiny figure in a boat looks up in awe toward rising mountain masses that form an overhanging cliff, perhaps an image for the overwhelming history of Nanjing.

Shitao was born two years before the Ming dynasty fell. A descendant of the first Ming emperor, he later lived in Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Anhui province. Despite his affiliation with the Ming imperial family, he met the Qing dynasty Kangxi emperor twice.
  • 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
  • Contag, Victoria. Die beiden Steine: Beitrag zum Verständnis des Wesens Chinesischer Landschaftsmalerei. Braunschweig: H. Klemm, 1950. Reproduced: pl. 8
    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
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 268 archive.org
    Edwards, Richard. The Painting of Tao-Chi: Postscript to an Exhibition. [Richmond, Surrey]: [Oriental Art Magazine Ltd.], 1968. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 5, fig. 7
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 269 archive.org
    Lee, Sherman E. "The Water and the Moon in Chinese and Modern Painting." Art international, vol. 14 (1970), no. 1, pp. 47-59. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 35
    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
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 357 archive.org
    Capon, Edmund. Chinese Painting: 64 Reproductions. Oxford, England: Phaidon, 1979. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 59
    Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 12, p. 25
    Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. Mentioned: p. 312, no. 34
    Chung, Anita, Julia Frances Andrews, Kuiyi Shen, Tamaki Maeda, and Aida Yuen Wong. Chinese art in an age of revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965). Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Reproduced: p. 114, fig. 45
    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. 400-407
  • China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).
    Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003).
    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).
    The Painting of Tao-Chi, 1641-Ca. 1720. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (August 13-September 17, 1967).
  • {{cite web|title=Reminiscences of Qinhuai River|url=false|author=Shitao|year=1642–1707|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1966.31.8