id: 131673 accession number: 1954.263 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.263 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:32.112000 Conversation in Autumn, 1732. Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765). Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper; overall: 218.5 x 71.7 cm (86 x 28 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1954.263 title: Conversation in Autumn title in original language: 講秋圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1732 creation date earliest: 1732 creation date latest: 1732 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 218.5 x 71.7 cm (86 x 28 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: On a winter day in the renzi year [1732], while leisurely sitting in my mountain pavilion, I happened to have imitated the brush style of Yuan masters on the two verses: "A guest came from the dusty world for a visit; in the small cottage we talked about the sound of autumn." Xin luo shan ren 新羅山人 [seals] Hua Yan 華喦; Qiuyue 秋岳. translation: remark: inscription: 1 colophon and 2 seals of Zhang Tingji 張廷濟 (1768–1848): Old Hua [Yan], in this painting, was able to evoke the mood of desolation in nature and match the poetry elegantly. If Fangweng [Lu You 陸游 (1125–1210)] saw this, he would inscribe the painting with two words "idyllic world 詩境." translation: remark: inscription: 新羅山人為吾鄉老輩,擅長寫生。羅致羽族,翫其飛鳴飲啄。故所作別有生趣。山水不多。作客冬在西泠,見所白雲松舎圖。空靈曠逸,得未曾有,至今憶之。兹幅以蒼秀勝,荒寒之中,復饒逸趣。如坐我鵠灣、龍瀃間矣。 translation: remark: inscription: 1 colophon and 1 seal of Zhu Angzhi 朱昂之 (1764–1841): The highest achievement in the art of painting is to penetrate deeply into the chamber of old masters, but at the same time transcend the bounds of conventional rules. This painting of Xinluo is derived from [the style of] Baishi (Shen Zhou 沈周, 1427–1509) and Baoshan (Lu Zhi 陸治, 1496–1576) with splashed-ink technique of Wang Qia 王洽 (Wang Mo 王默, ?–805), in addition to his own innovative ideas. Hence the distinctive style. Truly, he is one of those who passed through the net of the Six Canons [of Xie He 謝赫, 479–502]; treasure it. translation: remark: inscription: 2 seals of Ye Tingguan 葉廷琯 (b. 1791); 1 seal 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: Master of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1963-09-15T04:00:00 Master of Landscape: East and West. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (organizer) (September 15-October 13, 1963); Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (November 1-December 1, 1963). title: Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting opening date: 1967-03-24T05:00:00 Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967). title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-11T05:00:00 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). 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: Ji Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen opening date: 2016-02-12T00:00:00 Ji Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-July 31, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-11-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Masters of Landscape. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (September 15-October 13, 1963); The Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (November 1-December 1, 1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-09-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Fantastics and Eccentrics. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY, (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); and M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967).', 'opening_date': '1967-03-23T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-10-29T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Ye Tingguan 葉廷琯 [b. 1791] date: footnotes: citations: Sun Zutong 孫祖同 [1894–1937] date: footnotes: citations: Yu Zituo 虞子垞 [early 20th century] 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 Deng, Qiumei 鄧秋枚. Shen zhou da guan 神州大觀. Shanghai: Shen zhou guo guang she, 1912. page number: Reproduced: pl. (18) url: Kawai, Senro 河井荃廬, editor. Shina nanga taisei 支那南畫大成. Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, 1935. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: X, pl. 137 url: Pan, Zunqi 潘遵祈. Xu jing zhai suo cang ming hua ji 虛靜齋所藏名畫集. Shanghai: Shang wu yin shu guan, Minguo 24 [1935]. page number: Reproduced: pl. 12 url: Sirén, Osvald. A History of Later Chinese Painting. London: The Medici Society, 1938. page number: Mentioned: II, Lists, 253 url: Ōmura, Seigai 大村西崖 and Ōmura Kidō 大村文夫. Chūgoku meigashū. 8 [中国名画集. 第8冊 = Collection of famous Chinese paintings]. Tōkyō: Ryūbunshokyoku, 1945. page number: VIII, pl. 13 url: Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. page number: Mentioned: p. 157, cat. no. 110; Reproduced: p. 134 url: https://archive.org/details/ChineseLandscape Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: VII, Lists, 343 url: 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. 880 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n156 Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962. page number: Mentioned: p. 126, no. 101 url: Masters of Landscape: East and West. Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 16 url: Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 455, fig. 601 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. 269 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n293 Cahill, James, and Virginia Field. Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. [New York]: Asia Society; distributed by Abrams, 1967. page number: cat. no. 33 url: 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. 269 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n293 Cahill, James. "Chūgoku kaiga niokeru kisō to gensō" [Fantastics and eccentrics in Chinese painting] (part II). Kokka (1975): no. 979, pp. 2-21. page number: 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. 358 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n378 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 265, p. 361 url: Barnhart, Richard M. The Jade studio: masterpieces of Ming and Qing painting and calligraphy from the Wong Nan-pʻing collection. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1994. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 61, p. 195 url: Honour, Hugh, and John Fleming. A World History of Art, 5th Edition. London: Laurence King, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 16.5, p. 696 url: Honour, Hugh, and John Fleming. A World History of Art, 7th Edition. London: Laurence King, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 690, fig. 16.5 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 440-446 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.263/1954.263_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.263/1954.263_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.263/1954.263_full.tif