id: 142278 accession number: 1966.115 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.115 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:15.223000 Birds in a Grove in a Mountainous Winter Landscape, 1100s. Possibly by Gao Tao (Chinese, 1100s). Hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk; overall: 174.9 x 90.2 cm (68 7/8 x 35 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1966.115 title: Birds in a Grove in a Mountainous Winter Landscape title in original language: 寒林聚禽圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1100s creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1199 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Jin dynasty (1115-1234) technique: hanging scroll, ink and slight color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gao Tao (Chinese, 1100s) - artist Gao Tao 高燾 was a twelfth-century northern artist from Mianzhou 沔州 (present-day Lueyang 略陽 county) in Shaanxi 陝西 province. He was recorded... as a "reclusive gentleman" (yanxue shangshi 巖穴上士) particularly known for paintings of intimate scenes that were "pure and remote, tranquil and profound," and of themes such as "sleeping ducks, floating geese, decaying willows and withered stalks." --- measurements: Overall: 174.9 x 90.2 cm (68 7/8 x 35 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: A signature and a seal at lower left edge: Gao Tao 高燾; seal undecipherable. 10 additional seals: 1 of Zhu Gang 朱棡 [1358–1398]; 3 of Suo’etu 索額圖 [1636–1703]; 2 of A’erxipu 阿爾喜普 [1700s]; 1 of Weng Fanggang 翁方綱 [1733–1818]; 3 unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: 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 --- PROVENANCE Zhu Gang 朱棡 [1358–1398], late 1300s date: late 1300s footnotes: citations: Suo’etu 索額圖 [1636–1703] date: footnotes: citations: A’erxipu 阿爾喜普 [1700s] date: footnotes: citations: Weng Fanggang 翁方綱 [1733–1818], Beijing date: footnotes: citations: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Ju-hsi Chou, and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2015. page number: 68 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Ju-hsi Chou, and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2015. page number: 68 url:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ju-hsi Chou, and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2015. 
page number: 68 url:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ju-hsi Chou, and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2015. 
page number: 68 url:
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ju-hsi Chou, and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2015. 
page number: 68 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. 259 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n283 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. 259 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n283 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. 342 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n362 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. 20, p. 35 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. 10, pp. 145-146 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: p. 68-69 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.115/1966.115_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.115/1966.115_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.115/1966.115_full.tif