id: 143237 accession number: 1967.192 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.192 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:19.169000 Herbaceous Peony, 1685. Yun Shouping (Chinese, 1633–1690). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; painting: 118.7 x 71.8 cm (46 3/4 x 28 1/4 in.); overall with knobs: 226 x 84.4 cm (89 x 33 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection 1967.192 title: Herbaceous Peony title in original language: 五色芍藥圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1685 creation date earliest: 1685 creation date latest: 1685 current location: creditline: Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Yun Shouping (Chinese, 1633–1690) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 118.7 x 71.8 cm (46 3/4 x 28 1/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 226 x 84.4 cm (89 x 33 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's inscription, signature, and 3 seals: An old painting by an anonymous painter of the Northern Song Dynasty has five varieties of flowers painted in the boneless manner. Its colors are so beguiling and beautiful, that even after several hundred years its lead pigments are like new. The skill with which the ink and colors were applied and the subtlety of its composition find no equal among modern followers. On an autumn day in the yichou year [1685], Nantian, Shouping inscribed. [2 seals] Zhengshu; Shouping zhi yin. translation: remark: inscription: Artist's poem (not translated). Signed Yuange. [seal] Nantian caoyi. translation: remark: inscription: 3 additional seals of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907–2003). translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1968 opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969). title: Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2017-08-14T04:00:00 Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 14, 2017-February 5, 2018). title: China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'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': '1980-11-07T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 16, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-03-12T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 17, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2004-07-13T04:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1967 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1967– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1968.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 56, no. 1, 1969, pp. 3–50. page number: Reproduced: p. 38, no. 134a; Mentioned: pp. 39, 49, no. 134a url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152250 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. 242, pp. 327–329 url: Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku [中國繪畫總合圖錄= Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings], 第1卷. アメリカ·カナダ篇[= vol. 1 American and Canadian collections]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1982. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. A22-102 url: Chung, Saehyang P. Yün Shou-Pʼing (1633-1690) and the Orthodox Tradition of Chinese Bird-and-Flower Painting. PhD diss. Columbia University, 1983. page number: url: Nagoya Bosuton Bijutsukan, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Kachō-ga no kirameki: tōyō no seika [花鳥画の煌き: 東洋の静華 = the brilliance of bird-and-flower painting: gems of East Asian art]. Nagoya: Nagoya Bosuton Bijutsukan, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15, fig. 7 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: p. 313, no. 37 url: Chiem, Kristen. "Painting, Peonies, and Ming Loyalism in Qing-Dynasty China, 1644-1795." Archives of Asian Art 67, no. 1 (Apr. 2017): [83]-109. page number: Reproduced: p. 96, fig. 8 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.192/1967.192_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.192/1967.192_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1967.192/1967.192_full.tif