id: 137211 accession number: 1962.157.8 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.157.8 updated: 2022-01-04 16:08:52.869000 Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters, 1690. Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623-1697). Album leaf: ink and color on paper; overall: 28.6 x 44 cm (11 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1962.157.8 title: Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters title in original language: 倣古山水圖冊 series: series in original language: creation date: 1690 creation date earliest: 1690 creation date latest: 1690 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: album leaf: ink and color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623-1697) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 28.6 x 44 cm (11 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Autumn Leaf III (formerly Leaf H). Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: Imitating Fan Kuan's "Sailing on the Autumn River." Qushan laoren [2 seals] Mei; Qushan [seal, lower right corner] Bo jian shan kou ren jia. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei opening date: 1959-10-16T04:00:00 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959). title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). 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 (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954). * Fifteen Chinese Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA (1964). * Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965). * Fantastics and Eccentrics. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY, (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); and M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967). * Conference on Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1974). * Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. 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). * Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). --- PROVENANCE Richard B. Hobart, Cambridge, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1962 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1962- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: This leaf presents a rising promontory in the near distance, whose base is hidden by a dense grove of barren, autumnal trees. A gentle incline emerges from the lower right, with a small path leading to its summit, where a gentleman is sheltered from the wind by two pines. This promontory resembles Guangming Ding 光明頂 (Summit of the Bright and Luminous), the second tallest peak in Huangshan 黃山 (Mt. Huang or Yellow Mountain), the scenic area that inspired much of Mei Qing’s artistic production. Instead of looking down on the “Sea of Clouds,” though, as one who scales Huangshan’s peak would, this gentleman is looking out at two boats on an actual sea. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 109 url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: VII, Lists, 386 url: Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 110 url: Cahill, James, and Virginia Field. Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. [New York]: Asia Society; distributed by Abrams, 1967 page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 17 url: 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: Mentioned: cat. nos. 43 and 44 url: Watson, William. L'art de l'ancienne Chine. Paris: Mazenod, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pl. 563 url: 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 228, pp. 307-309 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 391-396 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.157.8/1962.157.8_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.157.8/1962.157.8_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.157.8/1962.157.8_full.tif