Collection Online as of January 22, 2021

Buffalo and Boy in Autumnal Landscape

1127-1279

Yan Ciping 閻次平

(Chinese, active 1164-1187)

China, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Album leaf; ink and light color on silk

Image: 23 x 21 cm (9 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.86

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

5 seals: 3 unidentified; 2 indecipherable.

Provenance

mid-1900s

Cheng Qi 程琦 (1911–1988), Hong Kong

?-1987

Mr. A. [Albert] Dean Perry [1910?-1987] and Mrs. A. Dean Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH

1987-1997

Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1997-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Citations

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. p. 59

Citations

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. 31, p. 51

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. 59-60

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).