The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Baoyang Lake
c. 1588
(Chinese, 1525-c. 1606)
Sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Description
This album of landscape paintings depicts the famous scenic areas located in and around the city of Wuxing in southeastern China. These places were all known for their natural beauty, but in addition, a number were distinguished by their links to eminent historical figures and events. The artist, Song Xu, was not a native of Wuxing, but must have visited it when he accepted the commission, for he carefully depicted all eighteen views and wrote comments on each of them.Song's gazetteer-like notation on this leaf reads:
Baoyang Lake: Several li (Chinese mile) from here to the east, one can exit through Lake Tai, which is quite near. Just a few li to the north is the township of Xiangshan. Having arrived there, one may want to cross over the border to the city of Yixing.
- ?–1998(Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1998–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- 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. 287-295von Spee, Clarissa. "China's Southern Paradise: Treasures From the Lower Yangzi Delta At the Cleveland Museum of Art." Arts of Asia (Winter 2023): 98-104. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 101-102, fig. 6
- 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 Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4-July 23, 2003).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1998.78.14