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Nine Dragon Pool

九龍潭圖

1690s

Mei Qing 梅清

(Chinese, 1623–1697)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper

Image: 92 x 43.5 cm (36 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.); Overall: 200.7 x 71.1 cm (79 x 28 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1979.50

Location

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Huangshan 黃山 is a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its spectacular rocky peaks, sea of clouds, oddly shaped pine trees, and hot springs.

Description

In the second half of the 1600s, Huangshan 黃山 (Mt. Huang or Yellow Mountain) attracted many visitors and inspired artists like Mei Qing. He probably sketched the Nine Dragon Pool on his second trip to the mountain range in 1690, at the advanced age of 68 sui. This dramatic waterfall has nine curves, each forming an emerald green pool. After heavy rain, the rushing water looks like nine white dragons.

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Inscription

太古蟄龍醒，蠺叢霹靂開。五溪雲不去，三峽雪飛來。瞿山, 清。 [印] 梅清; 淵公

Inscription Translation

Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: In remote age, the hibernating dragon is awoken,/ As the ancient King Cancong, it split the land asunder/ Clouds do not descend onto the land of Five Streams./ But snow does fly here from the Three Gorges. Qushan, Qing. [seals] Mei Qing; Yuangong.

Inscription Remark

Cancong was a legendary ruler of Sichuan in ancient times.

Inscription

2 additional seals: 1 of Dai Xi 戴煕 (1801–1860); 1 unidentified.

Provenance

Dai Xi 戴煕 [1801–1860]

Sakuraki Shun’ichi 櫻木俊一 [early 1900s]

?-1979

(Yabumoto Shogoro 藪本莊五郎 [1900s], Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1979-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Tō Sō Gen Min meigaten-gō [唐宋元明名画展号]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun Hakkōjo, 1928. II, pl. 256

Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Shina meiga hōkan [支那名畫寶鑒 = The pageant of Chinese painting]. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1936. Reproduced: pl. 775

Mei Qushan hua ji 梅瞿山画集. Shanghai: [Shanghai ren min mei shu chu ban she], 1960. Reproduced: pl. 2

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. Reproduced: cat. no. 117, p. 85 www.jstor.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. 229, p. 320

Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: pp. 70-71, cat. no. 43

Steuber, Jason. China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature. New York: Welcome Books, 2007. p. 196

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: pp. 391-396

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. 393

Exhibition history

To-So-Gen-Min, II 唐宋元明. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan (November 24-December 16, 1928).

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).

Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).

Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987).

Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

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