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accession number:	1955.37.11
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.37.11
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Landscape Album in Various Styles: Snowy Landscape, 1684. Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698). Album leaf, ink and light color on paper; overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1955.37.11

title:				Landscape Album in Various Styles: Snowy Landscape
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creation date:			1684
creation date earliest:		1684
creation date latest:		1684
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
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culture:	China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique:	album leaf, ink and light color on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Album leaf
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	Artist's inscription, signature, and seal:

The ancients, when painting snow always emphasized the chilly wind to depict the coldness.  Recent painters have not realized this.  Kangxi era, jaizi 甲子 year [1684], winter, the tenth month.  Zha Shibiao [seal] Shibiao.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).

* <em>The Colors of Ink</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 9-May 12, 1974).

* <em>Conference on Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations</em>. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1974).

* <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).

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PROVENANCE

	Ma Yueguan 馬曰琯 [1688–1755]
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	Ding Huikang 丁惠康 [1868/1869–about 1918] and Gu Anmi 顧安宓
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	(C. T. Loo & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.
	page number: 	cat. no. 107
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 875
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n155

	Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. <em>The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974.
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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. 226, pp. 303-305
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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: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 386-390
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