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Mountain Market, Clear with Rising Mist

Mountain Market, Clear with Rising Mist

early 1500s
Painting: 115.3 x 60 cm (45 3/8 x 23 5/8 in.); Overall: 179 x 70.7 cm (70 1/2 x 27 13/16 in.); Overall with knobs and cord: 181.8 x 77 cm (71 9/16 x 30 5/16 in.)
Location: 236 Korean

Did You Know?

Due to its stylistic features, this painting has long been believed to be a Chinese painting of the Northern Song period, dated to the 12th century.

Description

This painting depicts several vignettes of the scholar-hermit’s various activities. In the lower left corner, the scholar-hermit is portrayed welcoming his guest in the courtyard. In the middle section on the lower bottom, the scholar and his guest are shown encountering another traveler on the bridge and exchanging their greetings. After crossing the bridge, the scholar visits a friend who lives in a compound of multiple buildings. The two friends decide to take a short walk. Both appear in a terraced cliff, enjoying a mountain vista and the fragrance of an old pine tree carried by the gentle wind. The scholar continues his journey with his two servants. They are portrayed crossing a winding wooden bridge. Right beyond the colossal rocky mountain, a panoramic view to a bustling market place unfolds, suggesting that it may be the place where the scholar-hermit’s entourage would visit. Perhaps the scholar need to buy items such as books, rolls of papers, and brushes, all essential to scholarly life. Toward the upper left corner, another group of travelers is landing on the river bank that leads to the city gate; they may be headed to the multistoried Buddhist stupa nestled on the top of the mountains.
  • This painting came into the collection mounted in a simple, one-color Japanese hanging scroll format. As part of a grant received from the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation the scroll was sent to Korea in 2018 to be treated and remounted in a traditional Korean hanging scroll format. The painting now has outer borders of indigo dyed plain silk, inner borders of creamy white plain silk, and traditional Korean hanging scroll hardware.
  • (Andreas Leisinger, Tokyo, Japan, sold to George Gund III)
    ?–2015
    George Gund III [1937–2013], bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2015–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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