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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

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. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).