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accession number: 1954.791
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Leisure Enough to Spare, 1360. Yao Tingmei (Chinese, active mid-1300s). Handscroll, ink on paper; image: 23.1 x 84 cm (9 1/8 x 33 1/16 in.); overall: 23.8 x 734 cm (9 3/8 x 289 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1954.791
title: Leisure Enough to Spare
title in original language: 有餘閒
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creation date: 1360
creation date earliest: 1360
creation date latest: 1360
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
technique: handscroll, ink on paper
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Handscroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Yao Tingmei (Chinese, active mid-1300s) - artist
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measurements: Image: 23.1 x 84 cm (9 1/8 x 33 1/16 in.); Overall: 23.8 x 734 cm (9 3/8 x 289 in.)
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inscription: 至正廿年春正月_日作此併系鄙語于尾
地偏人遠閉柴關,滿院松陰白晝閒。
眼底風塵渾忘却,坐看流水臥看山。
吳興姚廷美畫
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inscription: 23 colophons and 53 seals (dates unavailable for some): 1 colophon, dated 1360, and 2 seals of Yang Weizhen (1296-1370); 1 colophon and 3 seals of Wan Yi; 1 colophon of Zhang Junde; 1 colophon and 3 seals of Angji (act. ca. mid-14th c.); 1 colophon and 1 seal of Xu Shiquan; 1 colophon and 3 seals of Gao Yu; 1 colophon and 2 seals of Li Mingfu; 1 colophon and 2 seals of Lu Lin; 1 colophon and 1 seal of Zhang Qian; 1 colophon of Tao Tangwen; 1 colophon and 1 seal of Wu Yuangui (act. ca. 1300-60); 1 colophon of Bao Jiong; 1 colophon of Wang Zao; 1 colophon and 1 seal of Ma Chuyi; 1 colophon and 1 seal of Lin Yizhuang; 1 colophon and 1 seal of Gu Shunju; 1 colophon and 2 seals of Wang Jing; 1 colophon and 2 seals of Lin Shouchang; 1 colophon and 1 seal of Gao Zhidao; 1 colophon of Lin Xun; 1 colophon, dated 1359, and 2 seals of Meng Weicheng (act. mid-14th c.); 1 colophon and 1 seal of Meng Zhiji (act. mid-l4th c.); 14 seals of Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 (1620-1691); 1 poem dated 1755 and 5 seals of the Qianlong 乾隆 emperor (r. 1736-95); 2 seals of the Jiaqing 嘉慶 emperor (r. 1796-1821); 3 seals of the Xuantong 宣統 emperor (r. 1909-11).
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inscription: Title on frontispiece by Zhang Bi 章弼:
Signed Gongchen 拱辰
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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: Art: The International Language
opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00
Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).
title: The Scholar in Art
opening date: 1968-04-19T04:00:00
The Scholar in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-28, 1968).
title: Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368)
opening date: 1968-10-02T04:00:00
Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-November 24, 1968).
title: The Colors of Ink
opening date: 1974-01-10T04:00:00
The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).
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).
title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection
opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00
Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).
title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00
Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00
Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4, 2003-July 23, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-03-04T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2013-July 28, 2014).', 'opening_date': '2013-11-21T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691]
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Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperors Qianlong, r. 1736–1795, Jiaqing, r. 1796–1820, and Xuantong, r. 1909–1911)
date: 1736?-c. 1911
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Zhang Heng 張珩 [1915–1963]
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(Frank Caro [1904-1980], New York, NY, 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
Ferguson, John C 福開森. Li dai zhu lu hua mu 歷代著錄畵目. Nanjing: Chin-ling University, Zhong guo wen hua yan jiu suo 金陵大學中國文化硏究所, 1934.
page number: II, 187
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Zheng, Zhenduo 鄭振鐸. Tang Song yi lai ming hua ji: Yun hui zhai cang 唐宋以来名畫集: 韞輝齋藏. Shanghai: Shanghai chu ban gong si, 1947.
page number: Reproduced: pls. 40–47
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Chen, Rentao 陳仁濤 [J.D. Chen] and Xu Rong 徐鎔. Jin gui lun gu chu ji [金匱論古初集 = Essays on Chinese antiquities - The first album of King-Kwei's collection with explanations]. Hong Kong: Chen Rentao, 1952.
page number: p. 64
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Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 34, p. 59; Mentioned: p. 147
url: https://archive.org/details/ChineseLandscape
Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956.
page number: Mentioned; VII, Lists, 144
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Chen, Rentao 陳仁濤 [J.D. Chen]. Gu gong yi yi shu hua mu jiao zhu 故宮已佚書畫目校注. Hong Kong: Dongnan shu ju, 1956.
page number: p. 15b
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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. 855
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n152
Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.
page number: Reproduced: p. 414, fig. 548
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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. 261
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n286
Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968.
page number: cat. no. 260
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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. 262
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n286
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page number: Reproduced: vol. I, pt. 1, 229, color pl. 24
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Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974.
page number: cat. no. 17
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Barnhart, Richard. “Yao Yen-Ch'ing, T'ing-Mei, of Wu-Hsing.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 39, no. 2, 1977, pp. 105–123.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 107, 108, figs. 2, 9
url: www.jstor.org/stable/3250195
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. 347
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n367
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. 112, pp. 137–138
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Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. The Nature and Significance of the Collection of Liang Ch'ing-Piao. Taipei, Taiwan: Chung-hua ming-kuo, 1981.
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Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
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Sugimura, Tō 杉村棟. Isurāmu イスラーム. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999.
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Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
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Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
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