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Summer in the Water Country

水鄉清夏圖

1670s

Gong Xian 龔賢

(Chinese, 1599-1689)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Album leaf, ink on paper

Overall: 25.6 x 32.8 cm (10 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1970.19

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's seal: Ban qian 半千. 1 additional seal unidentified.

Provenance

Richard Bryant Hobart [1885–1963], Cambridge, Massachusetts

1970

(Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1970–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lippe, Aschwin. Kung Hsien and the Nanking School: Some Chinese Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, a Loan Exhibition [March 17-April 16, 1955, China House, New York City]. New York: Chinese Art Society of America, 1955. cat. no. 8

Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. VII, Lists, 370

Qin, Zuyong, and Roger Goepper. Im Schatten Des Wu-T'ung-Baumes: [Gedanken Zur Malerei Von Ch'in Tsu-Yung]. Munchen: Hirmer, 1959. p. 32

Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. cat. no. 125

"New Oriental art galleries at Cleveland." Apollo: A Journal of the Arts. August 1970, Vol. 92, pp. 148-151. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 9, p. 151

Clay, Jean. L'impressionnisme. Paris: Réalités, 1971. p. 224

Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 58, no. 2, 1971, pp. 22–71. Reproduced: p. 55; Mentioned: no. 123, p. 69 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman. “To See Big within Small: Hsiao-Chung-Chien-Ta.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 114, no. 830, 1972, pp. 314–312. Reproduced: p. 322, fig. 67 www.jstor.org

Impressionism. New York, N.Y.: Chartwell Books Inc, 1973. Reproduced: p. 244

Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. 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. cat. no. 39

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. 216, p. 285

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. 366-373

Exhibition history

Kung Hsien and the Nanking school: some Chinese paintings of the seventeenth century, a loan exhibition. China House, New York, NY (March 17-April 16, 1955).

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

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).

Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).

The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).