id: 148238 accession number: 1975.22.3 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.22.3 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:04.448000 Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 3, early 1650s. Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616-aft 1694). Album leaf, ink and color on silk; image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1975.22.3 title: Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 3 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early 1650s creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1655 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: album leaf, ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616-aft 1694) - artist --- measurements: Image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist seal: Fan Qi 樊圻. Poem by Xu Fang 徐枋 (1622–1694): Green are the reeds, the sun not yet set;/ Tree foliage and mountain colors divide the lake in two halves./ A solitary recluse sits upon a flat bluff,/ Occasionally observing white clouds rising from the mountain tops. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1975 opening date: 1976-02-03T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-March 7, 1976). --- 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 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 7-July 7, 2015). --- PROVENANCE Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1836–1924] date: footnotes: citations: (Robert G. Sawers [b. c. 1934], London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1975 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1975- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: A waterfall descends between two mountains; the series of cascades is hinted by the careful placement of intermittent rocks. digital description: wall description: Leaf number 3 evokes Wang Wei's poetic line: Sit and watch the clouds rising. Xu Fang's colophon reads: Green are the reeds, the sun not yet set; Tree foliage and mountain colors divide the lake into two halves. A solitary recluse sits upon a flat bluff, Occasionally observing white clouds rising from the mountain tops. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 63, no. 2, 1976, pp. 31–71. page number: Reproduced: p. 70, cat. no. 155 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624 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. 219, pp. 288-293 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: Reproduced: pp. 379-385 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.22.3/1975.22.3_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.22.3/1975.22.3_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.22.3/1975.22.3_full.tif