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Listening to the Bamboo

Listening to the Bamboo

late 1400s-1500s

imitator of Wen Zhengming

(Chinese, 1470–1559)
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
hanging scroll, ink on sutra paper
Painting: 94.5 x 30.5 cm (37 3/16 x 12 in.); Overall with knobs: 202 x 55 cm (79 1/2 x 21 5/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1977.172
Location: not on view
  • Qing imperial collection [seals of Emperor Qianlong, r. 1736–1795]
    Zhang Yanmou 張燕謀 [1846–1913]
    Wen Qi 文祁 [1900s]
    ?-1977
    (Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1977-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Edwards, Richard. The Art of Wen Cheng-Ming (1470-1559). Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1976. Reproduced: cat. no. 33
    Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸. Shin Shū, Bun Chōmei [ 沈周 文徴明 = Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1978. Reproduced: p. 168, pl. 62
    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. 173, pp. 218-220
    Laozi 老子 and Stephen Mitchell, translator. Tao te ching 道德经. London: Frances Lincoln, 1999. Reproduced: cover, p. 64, p. 116
    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. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 270-278
  • Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 16-October 28, 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 Art of Wen Cheng-ming. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (January 25-February 29, 1976); Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (April 7-June 7, 1976)
  • {{cite web|title=Listening to the Bamboo|url=false|author=Wen Zhengming|year=late 1400s-1500s|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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