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Su Wu the Shepherd

雑畫圖冊

Su Wu the Shepherd

1788

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Min Zhen 閔貞

(Chinese, 1730–after 1788)

China, Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Album leaf, ink on paper

Sheet: 29 x 18.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1985.71.10

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Su Wu 蘇武 (140-60 BC) endured hardships and became a humble shepherd in an alien land while remaining a loyal servitor of the Han dynasty.

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Inscription by Min Chen on the last leaf: I have a habit of collecting strange rocks. My friend Tai-li shan-jen* treasures my paintings as much as I treasure strange rocks. Once we agreed to exchange what we love with each other. However, my busy activities have kept me from carrying this out. This summer I realized that this strange rock has been sitting in my studio for five years, so I painted this to fulfill my old promise. As a record, I chose the grotesque cliff in the last scene of this twelve-leaf album. Cheng-chai, Min Chen inscribed this on the sixth day of the sixth month [July 9] of the wu-shen year [1788]. * Tai-li shan-jen is Wang Li [tzu: Li-fu] tr. Hou-mei Ishida Six seals appearing on the leaves: Min Chen, Cheng-chai, Ching-ch'iao, Chen, Liao-t'ang, Min Chen chih-yin.

Citations

Ding, Nianxian 丁念先. Nian sheng lou du hua xiao ji [念聖樓讀畫小紀 = Chinese calligraphy and painting of various dynasties in the collection of Nianshenglou]. Taibei: Wen xing za zhi she, 1961. Mentioned: p. 41, no. 85

Fukunaga, Takehiko 福永武彥, and Howard L. Rogers. Kinnō, Bunjinga suihen. chiyūgo (9) 金農, 文人画粋編. 中国篇 9. Tōkyō: Chūōkoronsha, 1976. Mentioned and Reproduced: pls. 94–97, p. 179, fig. 30

Sotheby's, Parke, Bernet, New York. Fine Chinese Paintings. June 3, 1985 sale. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 69

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. 462–465

Exhibition history

Gallery 122 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21–October 29, 1999).

Gallery 122 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 8–November 14, 2000).

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