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Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters

倣古山水圖冊

1690

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Mei Qing 梅清

(Chinese, 1623–1697)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Album leaf: ink and color on paper

Overall: 28.6 x 44 cm (11 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1962.157.4

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The inscription dates this album to summer 1690, shortly after Mei Qing's second trip to Huangshan 黃山 (Mt. Huang or Yellow Mountain).

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Inscription

Summer Leaf III (formerly Leaf D). Artist's inscription, signature, and seals: [seal] Sanmei you. Massive in size, its trunk is truly grand,/ Luxuriant in foliage, its color never fades./ Standing along and still growing upwards,/ The trunk intends to be beside the clouds. Mei Qing of Qushan [painted] and inscribed in imitation of old Shih-t'ien's [Shen Zhou] brush idea in the gengwu year [1690], summer, the sixth month. [2 seals] Quxing, Qing; Yuangong. [2 seals, lower right corner] Huasong; Bo jian shan kou ren jia.

Provenance

?–1962

Richard B. Hobart [1885–1963], Cambridge, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1962–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. Mentioned: cat. no. 109

Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. Mentioned: VII, Lists, 386

Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. Mentioned: cat. no. 110

Cahill, James, and Virginia Field. Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. [New York]: Asia Society; distributed by Abrams, 1967 Mentioned: cat. no. 17

Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. nos. 43 and 44

Fu, Shen 傅申. Ming Qing zhi ji di ke bi gou le feng shang yu Shitao di zao qi zuo pin [明清之際的渴筆勾勒風尚與石濤的早期作品 = An aspect of mid-seventeenth century Chinese painting: The "dry linear" style and the early work of Tao-chi]. Hong Kong: Xianggang Zhong wen da xue [香港中文大學 = The Chinese University of Hong Kong], 1976. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 21

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. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 228, pp. 307-309

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. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 391-396

Exhibition history

Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).

Fifteen Chinese Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA (1964).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965).

Fantastics and Eccentrics. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY, (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); and M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967).

Conference on Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1974).

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).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).

Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962).

Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967).

The Colors of Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

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