id: 138531 accession number: 1962.42 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.42 updated: 2025-04-08 11:06:59.886000 Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat: In Picture and in Words, 1648. Xiang Shengmo (Chinese, 1597–1658). Handscroll; ink on paper; overall: 30.5 x 273 cm (12 x 107 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1962.42 title: Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat: In Picture and in Words title in original language: 巖栖思訪圖詠 series: series in original language: creation date: 1648 creation date earliest: 1648 creation date latest: 1648 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: handscroll; ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Xiang Shengmo (Chinese, 1597–1658) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 30.5 x 273 cm (12 x 107 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's title and 3 seals (in front of painting): [title] Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat: In Picture and in Words 巖栖思訪圖詠 [3 seals] Tian lai ge zhong wen sun 天籟閣中文孫; Xiang shi kong zhang zui xin han mo 項氏孔彰醉心翰墨; Qing fu yuan zhong di yi miao ye 清福緣中第一妙業. translation: remark: inscription: [印] 兔烏叟; 考古正今. 觀斯人兮何逍遙，非逍遙兮思其友。 思其友兮天一方，欲一訪之難回首。 松耶柏耶稱後凋，巖穴霏微何二酉。 山兮水兮人悠悠，遠莫致之神交否？ 河關一向望不及，言笑于今更非偶。 問游魚兮樂何深？問飛鳥兮歸何藪？ 問猿鶴兮何親疎？問鹿豕兮何夭壽？ 問白雲兮從何來？問流泉兮向何走？ 問漁樵兮何江山？問草木兮何畝畎？ 問春秋兮何炎涼？問世人兮何長久？ 問日月兮何晦明？曾見當時烏兔叟？ 戊子嘉平之初偶作此圖并題。 胥樵項聖謩識。 [印] 兔烏叟; 項氏孔彰; 未喪斯文. translation: remark: inscription: 13 additional seals: 4 of Tang Zuomei 唐作梅 (late 18th–19th century); 3 of Zhang Baixi 張百熙 (1847–1907); 4 of Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1963); 2 unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei opening date: 1959-10-16T04:00:00 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, 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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period opening date: 1971-11-09T05:00:00 The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period. University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (organizer) (November 9, 1971-January 2, 1972); Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February 11-April 2, 1972). 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: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'The Restless landscape: Chinese painting of the Late Ming period. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (November 9, 1971-January 2, 1972); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February 12-April 2, 1972).', 'opening_date': '1972-02-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1981-02-10T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Tang Zuomei 唐作梅 [late 1700s–1800s] date: footnotes: citations: Zhang Baixi 張百熙 [1847–1907] date: footnotes: citations: Zhang Heng 張珩 [1915–1963] date: footnotes: citations: (C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, 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: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Zheng, Zhenduo 鄭振鐸. Tang Song yi lai ming hua ji: Yun hui zhai cang 唐宋以来名畫集: 韞輝齋藏. Shanghai: Shanghai chu ban gong si, 1947. page number: Reproduced: pls. 90, 91 url: Wang, Chi-chʻien, and Victoria Contag. Seals of Chinese painters and collectors of the Ming and Ch'ing periods reproduced in facsimile size and deciphered. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1966. page number: pp. 388-392 url: Cahill, James. The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period. Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1971. page number: cat. no. 10 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: cat. no. 35 url: Li, Chu-tsing 李君毅. "Xiang Shengmo zhi Zhao yin shi hua 項聖謓之招隱詩畫." In Ming Yi min shu hua yan tao hui ji lu: Xianggang Zhong wen da xue Zhongguo wen hua yan jiu suo wen wu guan, 1975 nian 8 yue 31 ri zhi 9 yue 3 ri [明 遺民書畫硏討會記錄 : 香港中文大學・中國文化硏究所・文物館, 一九七五年八月卅一日至九月三日 = Proceedings of the Symposium on Paintings & Calligraphy by Ming I-min: 31 August-3 September 1975, Art Gallery, the Institute of Chinese Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong]. Dekun Zheng, Zongyi Rao, and James C. Y. Watt. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Chinese Studies, Art Museum, 1976. page number: Reproduced: pp. 549-550, fig. 12 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: Reproduced: cat. no. 195, pp. 251-252 url: Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 311, fig. 31 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. 324-329 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: p. 327 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.42/1962.42_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.42/1962.42_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.42/1962.42_full.tif