id: 131672 accession number: 1954.262 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.262 updated: 2024-03-26 02:40:15.022000 Pure Tones among Hills and Waters, 1664. Xiao Yuncong (Chinese, 1596–1673). Handscroll; ink and light color on paper; painting: 31 x 781.6 cm (12 3/16 x 307 11/16 in.); overall: 34 x 1194.8 cm (13 3/8 x 470 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1954.262 title: Pure Tones among Hills and Waters title in original language: 山水清音圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1664 creation date earliest: 1664 creation date latest: 1664 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: Handscroll; ink and light color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Xiao Yuncong (Chinese, 1596–1673) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 31 x 781.6 cm (12 3/16 x 307 11/16 in.); Overall: 34 x 1194.8 cm (13 3/8 x 470 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 種松發秀色，具是高人心。/ 鑿石築茅屋，長年覆綠陰。/ 白雲無意出，舒卷趨空林。/ 萬籟時一寂，微風墮清音。/ 此情莫可擬，此景誰能論。/ 只向千峰裏，共彈五絃琴。/ 桃花依綠水，不覺又春深。 甲辰花朝題于青蓮閣, 鐘山老人蕭雲從。[印] 鐘山老人 translation: remark: inscription: Title and inscription, dated 1744, and 3 seals of Shen Feng 沈鳳 (1685-1755). translation: remark: inscription: 4 colophons and 24 additional seals: 1 colophon, dated 1811, and 5 seals of Xiang Yuan 項源 (active about 1811); 1 colophon, dated 1858, and 2 seals of Qi Junzao 祁寯藻 (1793-1866); 1 colophon and 4 seals of Zhang Yunzhong 張允中 (1881–1960?); 4 seals of Jiang Xun 江恂 (active about 1753–after 1780); 1 colophon dated 1943, and 2 seals of Wang Shaoming 汪兆銘 (Wang Jingwei 汪精衛, 1883–1944); 1 seal of Qi Zhiliu 祁之鏐 (active about 1858); 2 seals of Yu Zhimeng 俞芷盟 (second half of 19th century); 4 seals unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Chinese Landscape Painting opening date: 1954-11-05T04:00:00 Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954). title: 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei opening date: 1959-10-16T04:00:00 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia opening date: 1987-10-02T04:00:00 Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987). title: Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2017-08-14T04:00:00 Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018). title: When Salt was Gold: Yangzhou, City of Riches and Art (Chinese art rotation) opening date: 2023-05-12T04:00:00 When Salt was Gold: Yangzhou, City of Riches and Art (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 12-November 5, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1981-02-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 7-July 7, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2015-01-07T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Jiang Xun 江恂 [active about 1753–after 1780] date: footnotes: citations: Xiang Yuan 項源 [active about 1811] date: footnotes: citations: Qi Zhiliu 祁之鏐 [active about 1858] date: footnotes: citations: Yu Zhimeng 俞芷盟 [second half of 19th century] date: footnotes: citations: Wu Changshou 吳昌綬 [1867–1924] date: footnotes: citations: Zhang Yunzhong 張允中 [1881–1960?] date: footnotes: citations: Wang Shaoming 汪兆銘 [Wang Jingwei 汪精衛, 1883–1944] date: footnotes: citations: (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1954 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1954- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. page number: Mentioned: p. 156, cat. no. 102; Reproduced: p. 127 url: https://archive.org/details/ChineseLandscape Trubner, Henry. A Chinese Landscape by Hsiao Yün-Tsʼung. Oriental Art, New Series, V. 1, No. 3. [Surrey, England, etc.]: [Oriental Art Magazine, Ltd.], 1955. page number: Reproduced: p. 104, fig. 6, 7 url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: VII, Lists, 337 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Some Problems in Ming and Ch'ing Landscape Painting.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 2, 1957, pp. 471–485. page number: Reproduced: pp. 480-82, pl. 13, fig. 17 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4629051 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 876 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n156 Goepper, Roger. Im Schatten des Wu-Tʻung-Baumes [桐陰畫訣 = Tong yin hua jue]. München: Hirmer, 1959. page number: Reproduced: pl. 26 url: Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. page number: cat. no. 105 url: Goepper, Roger. Chinesische Malerei: die jüngere Tradition. Bern: Hallwag, 1960. page number: p. 182, no. 105 url: Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. page number: Reproduced: pp. 119-21, no. 95 url: Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. page number: Reproduced: p. 454, fig. 597 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 268 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n292 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 268 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n292 Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku bijutsu [中國美術 = Chinese art in Western collections]. Tōkyō: Kōdansha, 1972. page number: Reproduced: II, pt. 2, 231, 232, pl. 40 url: Rosenzweig, Daphne Lange. "A Landscape Handscroll by Hsiao Yün-ts'ung." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 32, no. 1 (1974-75): pp. 34-56. page number: Reproduced: p. 47, fig. 17 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 356 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n376 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. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 223, pp. 297-298 url: 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. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 351–359; fig. 1–3, pp. 354–355 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.262/1954.262_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.262/1954.262_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.262/1954.262_full.tif