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accession number: 1969.123
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Landscape in the Style of Dong Yuan and Juran, c. 1650. Gong Xian (Chinese, 1599–1689). Hanging scroll, ink with white pigment on silk; image: 216.6 x 57.3 cm (85 1/4 x 22 9/16 in.); overall: 285.8 x 75.5 cm (112 1/2 x 29 3/4 in.); with knobs: 258.8 x 90.1 cm (101 7/8 x 35 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1969.123
title: Landscape in the Style of Dong Yuan and Juran
title in original language: 仿董巨山水圖
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creation date: c. 1650
creation date earliest: 1645
creation date latest: 1655
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creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique: hanging scroll, ink with white pigment on silk
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Gong Xian (Chinese, 1599–1689) - artist
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measurements: Image: 216.6 x 57.3 cm (85 1/4 x 22 9/16 in.); Overall: 285.8 x 75.5 cm (112 1/2 x 29 3/4 in.); with knobs: 258.8 x 90.1 cm (101 7/8 x 35 1/2 in.)
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inscription: 畫家董巨,實開南宗。既無剛根之氣,復無刻畫之跡。後之作者或以才見,或以法稱。唯董巨則幾乎道矣。然逞才則離法,泥法則叛道。至道無可道。說者謂即歛才就法之謂道。問之董巨,而董巨不知,忽乎微矣。此幅余二十年前舊作。藏之新安吳氏。吳君晉明寶之若家珍。後携之金陵。命余題識。余因與晉明論畫及此,并紀之。非敢曰此效法董巨而有得焉者也。
庚戌冬杪半畝居人龔賢。
[印]龔半千; 野遺賢; [左下]龔賢; [上]可能另有龔賢一印。
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inscription: 2 additional seals of Cheng Qi 程琦 (1911-1988)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1969
opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
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).
title: Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia
opening date: 1987-10-02T04:00:00
Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* 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).
* Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 16-October 28, 2003).
* Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2013-July 28, 2014).
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PROVENANCE
Wu Jinming 吳晉明 [17th century], Xin’an
date: c. 1650–at least c. 1670
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Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], to his son, Stephen O. K. Chen
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(Stephen O. K. Chen [20th century], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1969
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1969–
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Towering peaks and unfolding ranges are piled up and overlaid with layer after layer of brushwork to give an overall dense, dark, and even melancholic effect. Gong Xian created a personal style of landscape, which departed greatly from his models Dong Yuan and Juran. The tension between tradition and individuality had been a topic of interest for the Chinese artist. As Gong Xian writes in his inscription: "Painters of later periods may be known for their natural talents or praised for their observance of established traditions. . . . However, those who indulge in showing off their talent will deviate from the tradition, while those who adhere to tradition will alienate themselves from the Dao. The supreme Dao is inexplicable in words. . . ."
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cahill, James. "The Early Styles of Kung Hsien." Oriental Art XVI, no. 1 (Spring 1970), pp. 51-71.
page number: Reproduced: p. 61, fig. 17
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Cheng, Qi 程琦. Xuanhuitang shuhua lu [萱暉堂書畫錄 = Paintings and calligraphy in the collection of Hsüan-hui-tʻang]. Hong Kong: Xuanhuitang, 1972.
page number: pp. 138(a)-138(b)
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Lee, Sherman. “To See Big within Small: Hsiao-Chung-Chien-Ta.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 114, no. 830, 1972, pp. 314–312.
page number: Reproduced: p. 322, fig. 66
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/876940
Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬, and Terukazu Akiyama 秋山光和. Chūgoku bijutsu [中国美術. 卷1, 卷2, 絵画 = Chinese art in western collections. v. 1-2]. Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1973.
page number: Reproduced: II, pt. 2, p. 233, color pl. 43
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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. 40
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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. 357
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n377
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: cat. no. 213, pp. 278-279
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Shi, Shouqian 石守謙. Cong feng ge dao hua yi: fan si Zhongguo mei shu shi 從風格到畫意: 反思中國美術史. Taibei: Shi tou chu ban, 2010.
page number: p. 316, fig. 204
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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: Reproduced: pp. 366-373, and fig. 1 (detail)
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: pp. 366, 368
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