id:			140450
accession number:	1964.371.7
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.371.7
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Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou: The Thousand Buddha Hall and the Pagoda of the "Cloudy Cliff" Monastery, after 1490. Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427–1509). Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper; image: 31.1 x 41 cm (12 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.); overall: 36.5 x 49.9 cm (14 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1964.371.7

title:				Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou: The Thousand Buddha Hall and the Pagoda of the "Cloudy Cliff" Monastery
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series in original language:	虎丘十二景圖
creation date:			after 1490
creation date earliest:		1491
creation date latest:		1509
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	Album leaf; ink on paper or ink and slight color on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Album leaf
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Shen Zhou (Chinese, 1427–1509)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 31.1 x 41 cm (12 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.); Overall: 36.5 x 49.9 cm (14 3/8 x 19 5/8 in.)
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	inscription:	[印] 启南
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	inscription:	seal of Hou Shigong 侯士恭 [late 19th–early 20th century]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900
	opening date:   2013-10-26T00:00:00
	<i>Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900</i>. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (October 26, 2013-January 19, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954: Lee, Chinese Landscape Painting, cat. no. 51: 1-4 (B, E, F, J).<br>Asia House Gallery, 1974: Lee, Colors of Ink, cat. nos. 26 (B), 27 (E).<br>Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 155, p. 187-190.<br>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122); July 23 - October 27, 2003.<br>Victoria and Albert Museum, London (10/26/2013 - 1/19/2014): "Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900"<br>, ex. cat. no. 57, p. 250-251.

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PROVENANCE

	Hu Zhishou 胡之壽 [late 18th–mid 19th century]
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	Binliang 斌良 [1784–1847]
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	Hou Shigong 侯士恭 [late 19th–early 20th century]
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	(Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1964
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1964-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “Literati and Professionals: Four Ming Painters.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 53, no. 1, 1966, pp. 2–25.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 9
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152081

	Froncek, Thomas, and Hugh Honour. <em>The Horizon Book of the Arts of China</em>. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 323
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	Cahill, James. <em>Parting at the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580</em>. New York: Weatherhill, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  pp. 91-92, pl. 39
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	Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Richard Edwards, and Takeo Hibino 日比野丈夫. <em>Shin Shū, Bun Chōmei</em> [沈周文徴明 = Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 162, pl. 40
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	Giuffrida, Noelle. “Paintings, Politesse, and Petromania: Sherman E. Lee and the 1973 Art and Archaeology Delegation Trip to China.” <em>Archives of American Art Journal</em>, vol. 52, no. 1/2, 2013, pp. 34–43.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 43
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/43155566

	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 245-251
	url:		

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