Collection Online as of May 31, 2023

The Nine Elders of the Mountain of Fragrance

1426–52

attributed to Xie Huan 謝環

(Chinese, c. 1370-c.1450)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Handscroll, ink and color on silk

Painting: 29.4 x 148.9 cm (11 9/16 x 58 5/8 in.)

Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.99

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

4 seals: 2 of Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525–1590); 1 of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736-95); 1 of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907–2003)

Provenance

Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 [1525-1590], Jiaxing, China

The Qianlong Emperor, reigned 1736–95, Beijing, China

C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY

?before 1980-1997

Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1997-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

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: pp. 155-156, cat. no. 133

Annual Report 1997. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1998. Mentioned: p. 44

Smith, Judith G., and Wen Fong. Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting. New York: Dept. of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 252, fig. 27 and p. 252, fig. 28

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. 310, no. 27

Ji'nan, Yin. " Politics or Entertainment? Examining Jiangxi Scholar Officials and Zhejiang Painters through the Lens of the Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden." In Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450. Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Yu Ping Luk., eds., p. 102-103. London: The British Museum, 2016. Reproduced: pp. 102-103

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).

The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 3, 1999-January 9, 2000).