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The Peach Blossom Spring

桃花源圖

1650

Liu Du 劉度

(Chinese, active c. 1628-after 1653)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on satin

Painting: 135.8 x 52 cm (53 7/16 x 20 1/2 in.); Overall with knobs: 241.5 x 79 cm (95 1/16 x 31 1/8 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1971.227

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Inscription

Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals at middle right edge: In the tenth month of the gengyin year [1650], painted in imitation of Zhao Chengzhi [Chao Mengfu]. Liu Du [seals] Liu Du zhi yin; Shu xian.

Inscription

2 additional seals of Low Chuck Tiew 劉作籌 (1911–1993).

Provenance

Low Chuck Tiew 劉作籌 [1911–1993]

?-1971

(Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1971-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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. 198, p. 255

Little, Stephen. Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China: the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 10-April 10, 1988. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. Reproduced: cat. no. 8, pp. 36-37

Delacour, Catherine. La Voie du Tao: un Autre Chemin de L'être : Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, 29 Mars-5 Juillet 2010. Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2010. Reproduced: cat. 67.2, pp. 266-267 and p. 59

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. 342-344

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).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 16, 2003).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 7-July 7, 2015).

Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).

Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 10, 1988).

La voie du Tao, un autre chemin de l'Etre. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 29-July 5, 2010).

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