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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

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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

Inscriptions

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).