id: 131672 accession number: 1954.262 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.262 updated: 2023-03-24 11:13:11.483000 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: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 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). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 7-July 7, 2015). --- 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: Painted at the age of 68, this landscape is one of Xiao Yuncong’s most mature works. Extraordinary in its combination of fine details and bold brushstrokes and washes, it is also one of its longest compositions in handscroll format, extending over seven meters in length.

Biographical notes on Xiao Yuncong relate that he did not pursue the career of an official, but "furnished a cottage in the eastern suburbs [of Wuhu in Anhui province] and amused himself playing the qin (zither) and reading every day. All it took was for him to grab a brush, to complete poems and essays instantly. . . . He also was skilled in musical arts, astronomy, philology, yinyang studies, and its related skills at prognostication: indeed, he knew them all." --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. page number: cat. no. 102 url: 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