Collection Online as of September 27, 2023

Paintings after Ancient Masters: Laozi Riding an Ox

1598–1652

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Chen Hongshou 陳洪綬

(Chinese, 1598/99–1652)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Album leaf, ink and color on silk

Overall: 30.2 x 26.7 cm (11 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1979.27.1.2

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Hongshou respectfully painted. [Seal] Chen yin Hongshou

Provenance

Weng Tonghe 翁同龢 [1830-1904], by descent to Wango H. C. Weng

-1979

Wan-go H. C. Weng 翁萬戈 [1918-2020], Lyme, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1979-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. Mentioned: cat. no. 112, p. 62, 98 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. Mentioned: cat. no. 207 pp. 268-272; Reproduced: p. 269, fig. 207B

Little, Stephen. Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China: the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 10-April 10, 1988. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 1, pp. 26-27, p. 18, color plate 1

Steuber, Jason. China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature. New York: Welcome Books, 2007. p. 211

Laska, P. J. The Original Wisdom of the Dao De Jing: A New Translation and Commentary. Green Valley, AZ: ECCS Books, 2012. Reproduced: cover image

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 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983).

Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 10, 1988).

Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652). University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (organizer) (October 25, 2017-January 28, 2018).