id:			132925
accession number:	1955.37.3
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.37.3
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Landscape Album in Various Styles: Boating in Spring Water, 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 1955.37.3

title:				Landscape Album in Various Styles: Boating in Spring Water
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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:

"Boating in spring water is like sailing in the sky"  [from a poem by Lu Yu, 1125-1210].  While painting this, I thought of the quotation and thus recorded it.  The third month of the jiazi year [1684]. Shibiao [seal] Erzhan. [seal, upper right] Shibiao.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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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>The Colors of Ink</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 9-May 12, 1974).', 'opening_date': '1974-04-09T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Conference on Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations</em>. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1974).', 'opening_date': '1974-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'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). 1955.37.3 only', 'opening_date': '2003-03-04T00:00:00'}

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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)
	date: ?-1955
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1955-
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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 and Reproduced: cat. no. 875
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n155

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 268
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n292

	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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