id: 135836 accession number: 1959.348 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.348 updated: 2023-09-19 11:02:25.095000 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: series in original language: creation date: 960–85 creation date earliest: 960 creation date latest: 985 current location: 003 Special Exhibition Hall creditline: Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer copyright: --- culture: China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) technique: Hanging scroll; ink on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Juran (Chinese, active 960–985) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: 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. translation: remark: 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) translation: remark: 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. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques opening date: 1981-02-07T05:00:00 Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. 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 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: Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia opening date: 1987-10-02T04:00:00 Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. 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 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. 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 Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections. Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China (organizer) (November 1, 2012-January 3, 2013). title: China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan) opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Chinese Landscape Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1954). * Chinese Painting, Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1981). Photo-reproduction only on view; reproduced in catalogue, no. 19, p. 32. * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 16-October 28, 2003). --- PROVENANCE Song government (Shang Shu Sheng yin 尚書省印), Beijing date: 960-1279 footnotes: citations: Ming government (half-seal Si yin 司印), Beijing date: 1368-98 footnotes: citations: Wu Ting 吳廷 (first half of 1600s) date: first half of 1600s footnotes: citations: Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691] date: 1620–1691 footnotes: citations: Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 [1640–1686] date: 1640–86 footnotes: citations: An Qi 安岐 [c. 1683–c. 1744] date: c. 1683–c. 1744 footnotes: citations: Qing imperial collection (seals of the Qianlong Emperor), Beijing date: 1736–95 footnotes: citations: Shao Fu-hsing date: early 1900s footnotes: citations: Frank F. Cho, New York, NY date: ?–1959 footnotes: citations: Katharine Holden Thayer [1898–1985], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1959 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1959– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Monk Juran served the Southern Tang (937–75) imperial house in Nanjing, where he studied with Dong Yuan (active 930s–60s). Both founded the southern landscape tradition, or Jiangnan school, known for gentle misty riverscapes in wet ink.

Juran moved north to Kaifeng when the Southern Tang surrendered to the Northern Song, the impact of which may be seen in this painting, presumably painted after 976. A towering mountain dominates the composition, typically representing the style of the Northern Song academy; while the use of long hemp fiber strokes to texture the mountains, wet dots, and round boulders on mountain tops are elements of the southern landscape tradition. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. page number: cat. no. 13, p. 21 url: 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. 258 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n282 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. 258 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n282 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. 1 url: 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. 339 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n359 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. 11, pp. 15-19 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 50–51 url: Shanghai bo wu guan. Han mo hui cui: xi du Meiguo cang Zhongguo Wu dai Song Yuan shu hua zhen pin [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. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 22–28 url: Li, Song,et.al. A History of Chinese Art. 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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.348/1959.348_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.348/1959.348_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1959.348/1959.348_full.tif