id: 135836 accession number: 1959.348 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.348 updated: 2023-03-29 11:09:59.060000 Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains, 960–985. 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: 260.5 x 68 cm (102 9/16 x 26 3/4 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: 960–985 creation date earliest: 960 creation date latest: 985 current location: 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: 260.5 x 68 cm (102 9/16 x 26 3/4 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). --- 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: --- 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