id:			144829
accession number:	1969.60
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.60
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Playing the Qin in a Secluded Valley, 1548. Imitator of Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470–1559). Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper; overall: 132 x 50.5 cm (51 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1969.60

title:				Playing the Qin in a Secluded Valley
title in original language:	幽壑鳴琴圖
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creation date:			1548
creation date earliest:		1548
creation date latest:		1548
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470–1559)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 132 x 50.5 cm (51 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	幽壑鳴琴。

萬疊高山供道眼，千尋飛瀑淨塵心。
憑將一曲朱絃琴，小答松風太古音。

嘉慶戊申夏四月徵明製 [印] 徵明; 徵仲父印 [右下方] 悟言室印; 衡山
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	inscription:	4 additional seals:  3 of Cheng Qi 程琦 (1911–1988); 1 unidentified.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1969
	opening date:   1970-01-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

	title:		Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting
	opening date:   1981-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</i>. 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); The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (December 3, 1982-February 28, 1983).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>The Art of Wen Cheng-ming</em>. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (January 25-February 29, 1976); Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (April 7-June 7, 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-01-25T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2013 - July 28, 2014).', 'opening_date': '2013-11-21T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691]
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	Lu Xinyuan 陸心源 [1834–1894]
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	Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988]
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	(Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, 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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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lu, Xinyuan 陸心源. <em>Rang li guan guo yan lu </em>穰梨館過眼錄. Wuxing: Lu shi, 1891
	page number: 	ch. 17, pp. 13(b)-14(a)
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	Edwards, Richard. <em>The Art of Wen Cheng-Ming (1470-1559)</em>. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1976.
	page number: 	cat. no. XLV
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	Oertling, Sewall Jerome. <em>Ting Yün-Pʼeng: A Chinese Artist in the Late Ming Dynasty</em>. PhD diss., University of Michigan, 1980.
	page number: 	Mentioned:  pp. 308, 310
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	Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 171, pp. 216-217
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	Greene, David B. <em>How to Respond to Strangeness in Art: Four Studies in the Unfamiliar</em>. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 3.9
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	Coleman, Patrick, ed. <em>The Art of Music</em>. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 154, plate 130
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	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 270-278
	url:		

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