Collection Online as of January 26, 2021
1100s
possibly by Gao Tao 高燾 (Chinese, 1100s)
Hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk
Overall: 174.9 x 90.2 cm (68 7/8 x 35 1/2 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1966.115
Inscriptions
Inscription A signature and a seal at lower left edge: Gao Tao 高燾; seal undecipherable.
10 additional seals: 1 of Zhu Gang 朱棡 [1358–1398]; 3 of Suo’etu 索額圖 [1636–1703]; 2 of A’erxipu 阿爾喜普 [1700s]; 1 of Weng Fanggang 翁方綱 [1733–1818]; 3 unidentified.
Gao Tao Gao Tao 高燾 was a twelfth-century northern artist from Mianzhou 沔州 (present-day Lueyang 略陽 county) in Shaanxi 陝西 province. He was recorded... as a "reclusive gentleman" (yanxue shangshi 巖穴上士) particularly known for paintings of intimate scenes that were "pure and remote, tranquil and profound," and of themes such as "sleeping ducks, floating geese, decaying willows and withered stalks."
Provenance late 1300s
Zhu Gang 朱棡 [1358–1398], late 1300s
Weng Fanggang 翁方綱 [1733–1818], Beijing
?-1966
(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1966-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Provenance Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ju-hsi Chou, and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2015. 68
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 259
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The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 259
archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 342
archive.org
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. 20, p. 35
Shanghai bo wu guan. Han mo hui cui: xi du Meiguo cang Zhongguo Wu dai Song Yuan shu hua zhen pin [翰墨薈萃: 细读美国藏中国五代宋元书画珍品 = Masterpieces of early Chinese painting and calligraphy in American collections]. Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2012. Reproduced: cat no. 10, pp. 145-146
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art . Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. Reproduced: p. 68-69
Exhibition history
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).
Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections . Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China (organizer) (November 1, 2012-January 3, 2013).
