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A Scholar's Retreat amid Autumn Trees

A Scholar's Retreat amid Autumn Trees

c. 1403
(Chinese, 1362–1416)
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
hanging scroll, ink on paper
Image: 58.7 x 27.2 cm (23 1/8 x 10 11/16 in.); Overall: 82.3 x 40 cm (32 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.98
Location: not on view

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Wang Fu painted this going-away present and 3 friends added poems wishing the best for their departing friend Gongyi.
  • Yao Jiheng 姚際恒 [1647–about 1714]
    Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperor Qianlong, r. 1736–1795)
    Aisin-Gioro Mianyi 愛新覺羅綿億 [1764–1815]
    He Zheng 何澂 [d. about 1888]
    Nagao Uzan 長尾雨山 [1864–1942], Kyoto, Japan
    Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988]
    ?-1997
    Mr. A. Dean Perry [1909-1987] and Mrs. Helen Wade Greene Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1997-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Nihon genzai Shina meiga mokuroku 日本現在支那名畫目錄. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1938. p. 128
    Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. cat. no. 266
    Ishikawa, Jun 石川淳, Yoshitaka Iriya 入矢義高, Yūjirō Nakata 中田勇次郎, and Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸. Kō Kōbō, Gei San, Ō Mō, Go Chin [黄公望, 倪瓚, 王蒙, 呉鎮]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. Reproduced: p. 178, pl. 87
    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. 117, p. 142
    Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chugoku kaiga shi [中國繪畫史 = A History of Chinese Painting]. Tōkyō: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1981. Reproduced: p. 136, no. 130
    Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku [中國繪畫總合圖錄 = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings], 第 1卷. アメリカ·カナダ篇 [= vol. 1 American and Canadian collections]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1982. Reproduced: #A23-005, p. I-286
    Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院. Hai wai yi zhen. Zai xu 海外遺珎. 繪畫. 再續. Taipei: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1990. Reproduced: p. 78
    Li, Huishu. Exquisite Moments: West Lake & Southern Song Art. New York, NY: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 2001. Reproduced: cat. no. 7, pp. 72-73
    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. 207-210
    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: p. 208
  • The Fragrance of Ink: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. A. Dean Perry. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-August 3, 1997).
    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).
    Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968).
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