Collection Online as of January 24, 2021

Listening to the Qin

late 1400s-early 1500s

attributed to Tang Yin 唐寅

(Chinese, 1470-1523)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368-1644)

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk

Overall: 35.9 x 29 cm (14 1/8 x 11 7/16 in.)

Gift of Herbert F. Leisy in memory of his wife, Helen Stamp Leisy 1977.199

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's sea at lower left corner: Wu [remainder cut off].

Provenance

(Howard C. Hollis [1899-1985], Cleveland, OH, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Leisy)

?-1977

Mr. Herbert F. [1900-1977] and Mrs. Helen Stamp Leisy [1906-1975], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1977-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Tang, Yin, Wei Xu, and Ying Qiu. Ming Hua Quan Ji. Hangzhou Shi: Zhejiang da xue chu ban she, 2017. Mentioned and reproduced: Vol. 20, pt. 2, p. 222-223, 317

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 161, p. 197.

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119); July 16 - October 28, 2003.