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虎丘十二景圖

Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou: The Thousand Buddha Hall and the Pagoda of the "Cloudy Cliff" Monastery

after 1490

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Shen Zhou 沈周

(Chinese, 1427–1509)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper

Image: 31.1 x 41 cm (12 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.); Overall: 36.5 x 49.9 cm (14 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1964.371.7

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

[印] 启南

Inscription

seal of Hou Shigong 侯士恭 [late 19th–early 20th century]

Provenance

Hu Zhishou 胡之壽 [late 18th–mid 19th century]

Binliang 斌良 [1784–1847]

Hou Shigong 侯士恭 [late 19th–early 20th century]

?-1964

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

1964-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. “Literati and Professionals: Four Ming Painters.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 53, no. 1, 1966, pp. 2–25. Reproduced: fig. 9 www.jstor.org

Froncek, Thomas, and Hugh Honour. The Horizon Book of the Arts of China. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1969. Reproduced: p. 323

Cahill, James. Parting at the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580. New York: Weatherhill, 1978. Reproduced: pp. 91-92, pl. 39

Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Richard Edwards, and Takeo Hibino 日比野丈夫. Shin Shū, Bun Chōmei [沈周文徴明 = Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1978. Reproduced: p. 162, pl. 40

Giuffrida, Noelle. “Paintings, Politesse, and Petromania: Sherman E. Lee and the 1973 Art and Archaeology Delegation Trip to China.” Archives of American Art Journal, vol. 52, no. 1/2, 2013, pp. 34–43. Reproduced: p. 43 www.jstor.org

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. 245-251

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954: Lee, Chinese Landscape Painting, cat. no. 51: 1-4 (B, E, F, J).

Asia House Gallery, 1974: Lee, Colors of Ink, cat. nos. 26 (B), 27 (E).

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 155, p. 187-190.

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122); July 23 - October 27, 2003.

Victoria and Albert Museum, London (10/26/2013 - 1/19/2014): "Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900"

, ex. cat. no. 57, p. 250-251.

Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (October 26, 2013-January 19, 2014).