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Scholar-Hermits in the Autumn Mountains

1500–1510

Tang Yin 唐寅

(Chinese, 1470–1523)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Handscroll, ink and light color on silk

Overall: 28.6 x 232.4 cm (11 1/4 x 91 1/2 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1976.94

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Artist's signature and 2 seals at end of scroll: Tang Yin [seals] T'ang Po-hu; T'ang Tzu'wei t'u-shu.

Inscription

Title on frontispiece by Li Cho-kung (dates unknown).

Inscription

1 colophon and 11 additional seals: 1 colophon of Wu Tso-hsi (19th-20th c.); 2 seals of Gao Qifeng 高奇峰 (1889–1933); 5 seals of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907–2003); 4 seals unidentified.

Provenance

Gao Qifeng 高奇峰 [1889–1933] ¹

?-1976

(C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1976-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

¹Gao Qifeng was a painter, like his elder brother Gao Jianfu 高劍父 (1879–1951).

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 351 archive.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. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 162, p. 198

Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 311, no. 29

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).

Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).