id:			132014
accession number:	1954.581
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.581
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:33.391000

Saying Farewell at Xunyang (Song of the Pipa), 1500s. Wen Boren (Chinese, 1502–1575). Handscroll, ink and color on paper; overall: 27 x 271.3 cm (10 5/8 x 106 13/16 in.); painting only: 21 x 60 cm (8 1/4 x 23 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1954.581

title:				Saying Farewell at Xunyang (Song of the Pipa)
title in original language:	潯陽送客圖 (琵琶行)
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creation date:			1500s
creation date earliest:		1520
creation date latest:		1575
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	handscroll, ink and color on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Handscroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Wen Boren (Chinese, 1502–1575)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 27 x 271.3 cm (10 5/8 x 106 13/16 in.); Painting only: 21 x 60 cm (8 1/4 x 23 5/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	"潯陽送客圖"
五峰山人文伯仁寫于停雲館中 [印] 文伯仁; 五峰
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	inscription:	2 colophons and 9 additional seals: 

1 transcription of "Pipa xing 琵琶行” (Song of Pipa) and 3 seals of Zhu Yizun 朱彜尊 (1629-1709); 
2 seals of Wu Rongguang 吳榮光 (1773-1843); 
1 colophon, dated 1826, and 3 seals of Wu Xijia 吳錫嘉 (mid-1700s)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Chinese Landscape Painting
	opening date:   1954-11-05T04:00:00
	<i>Chinese Landscape Painting</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).

	title:		Migrations of Memory––The Poetry and Power of Music (平沙落雁 — 音樂的詩意與力量) (Chinese art rotation)
	opening date:   2021-11-19T05:00:00
	<i>Migrations of Memory––The Poetry and Power of Music (平沙落雁 — 音樂的詩意與力量) (Chinese art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2021-May 8, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-11-05T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</em>. 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': '<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4-July 23, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-03-04T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Wu Xijia 吳錫嘉 [mid-1700s]
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	Yamamoto Teijiro 山本悌二郎 [1870–1937], Tokyo, Japan
	date: by 1932
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	(Howard Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1954
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1954-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Yamamoto, Teijirō 山本悌二郎. <em>Chōkaidō shoga mokuroku</em> 澄懐堂書晝目錄. Tokyo: Tanaka Keitarō, 1932.
	page number: 	Reproduced: III, pl. 94
	url:		

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 151. cat. no. 58; Reproduced: p. 84
	url:		https://archive.org/details/ChineseLandscape

	Sirén, Osvald. <em>Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles</em>. New York: Ronald Press, 1956.
	page number: 	Mentioned: VII, Lists, 266
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	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.
	page number: 	cat.  no. 59
	url:		

	Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. <em>Chugoku kaiga shi </em>中國繪畫史. Tōkyō: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1981.
	page number: 	
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	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 282-286
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	Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 185, p. 237
	url:		

	Peng, Wei 彭薇, and Clarissa von Spee. <em>Migrations of Memory: The Poetry and Power of Music by Chinese Artist Peng Wei in Collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>= 平沙落雁—音樂的詩意與力量: 中國藝術家彭薇與克利夫蘭藝術博物館合作. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 14
	url:		

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