id:			135836
accession number:	1959.348
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Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains, 960–85. Juran (Chinese, active 960–985). Hanging scroll; ink on silk; painting only: 184.5 x 56.1 cm (72 5/8 x 22 1/16 in.); overall with knobs: 260.5 x 77.4 cm (102 9/16 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer 1959.348

title:				Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains
title in original language:	溪山蘭若圖
series:				
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creation date:			960–85
creation date earliest:		960
creation date latest:		985
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
technique:	Hanging scroll; ink on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Juran (Chinese, active 960–985)  - artist

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measurements: Painting only: 184.5 x 56.1 cm (72 5/8 x 22 1/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 260.5 x 77.4 cm (102 9/16 x 30 1/2 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	The upper portion of the scroll: the two small characters, “Ju wu 巨五”, written near the large seal.
Written by a functionary in Shang Shu Sheng (the Department of State Affairs) when the painting was first received.
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	inscription:	The upper portion of the scroll: the large seal, “Shang Shu Sheng yin 尚書省印” (seal of the Department of State Affairs)
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	inscription:	The upper portion of the scroll: the half-seal “Si yin 司印”, seen along a border.
Attributed to 典禮紀察司 of Ming dynasty.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Colors of Ink
	opening date:   1974-01-10T04:00:00
	<i>The Colors of Ink</i>. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974).

	title:		Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques
	opening date:   1981-02-07T05:00:00
	<i>Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981).

	title:		Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting
	opening date:   1981-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</i>. 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:		Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia
	opening date:   1987-10-02T04:00:00
	<i>Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987).

	title:		Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection
	opening date:   1991-09-17T04:00:00
	<i>Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

	title:		Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections
	opening date:   2012-11-01T00:00:00
	<i>Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections</i>. Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China (organizer) (November 1, 2012-January 3, 2013).

	title:		China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
	opening date:   2023-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Chinese Landscape Paintings</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-01-01T05:00:00Z'}

* {'description': '<em>Chinese Painting, Themes and Techniques</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1981). Photo-reproduction only on view; reproduced in catalogue, no. 19, p. 32.', 'opening_date': '1981-01-01T05:00:00Z'}

* {'description': '<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 16-October 28, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-07-16T04:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	Song government (Shang Shu Sheng yin 尚書省印), Beijing
	date: 960-1279
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	Ming government (half-seal Si yin 司印), Beijing
	date: 1368-98
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	Wu Ting 吳廷 (first half of 1600s)
	date: first half of 1600s
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	Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691]
	date: 1620–1691
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	Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 [1640–1686]
	date: 1640–86
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	An Qi 安岐 [c. 1683–c. 1744]
	date: c. 1683–c. 1744
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	Qing imperial collection (seals of the Qianlong Emperor), Beijing
	date: 1736–95
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	Shao Fu-hsing
	date: early 1900s
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	Frank F. Cho, New York, NY
	date: ?–1959
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	Katharine Holden Thayer [1898–1985], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1959
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1959–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. Cleveland OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.
	page number: 	cat. no. 13, p. 21
	url:		

	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. 258
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n282

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 258
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n282

	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.
	page number: 	cat. no. 1
	url:		

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 339
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n359

	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. 11, pp. 15-19
	url:		

	Cunningham, <em>Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 50–51
	url:		

	Shanghai bo wu guan. <em>Han mo hui cui: xi du Meiguo cang Zhongguo Wu dai Song Yuan shu hua zhen pin</em> [翰墨薈萃: 细读美国藏中国五代宋元书画珍品 = Masterpieces of early Chinese painting and calligraphy in American collections]. Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2012.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat no. 4, pp. 87-88
	url:		

	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 22–28
	url:		

	Li, Song,et.al. <em>A History of Chinese Art</em>. Translated by Simon Yin and Jane Elliott. Cambridge,UK; NY: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
	page number: 	Mention: p. 956; Reproduced: p. 957, III.71
	url:		

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