id: 149414 accession number: 1978.67 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.67 updated: 2025-06-13 12:04:39.736000 Garden for Solitary Enjoyment, 1515–52. Qiu Ying (Chinese, 1494–1552). Handscroll; ink and light color on silk; painting: 28 x 518.5 cm (11 x 204 1/8 in.); overall: 32 x 1290.2 cm (12 5/8 x 507 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1978.67 title: Garden for Solitary Enjoyment title in original language: 獨樂園 series: series in original language: creation date: 1515–52 creation date earliest: 1515 creation date latest: 1552 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: Handscroll; ink and light color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Qiu Ying (Chinese, 1494–1552) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 28 x 518.5 cm (11 x 204 1/8 in.); Overall: 32 x 1290.2 cm (12 5/8 x 507 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Accompanying text of an essay together with seven poems of Sima Guang (1019–1086) and one poem of Su Shi (1037–1101) written by Wen Zhengming (1470–1559) in 1558. translation: remark: inscription: 2 colophons and 82 seals: 4 seals of Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470–1559); 59 seals of Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525–1590); 1 colophon, dated 1644, and 7 seals of Xiang Yukui 項禹揆 (c. late 1500s–1659); 1 colophon, dated 1880, and 2 seals of Weng Tonghe 翁同龢 (1830–1904); 2 seals of Ch'eng Chen-i (19th c.); 1 seal of Han Ch'ung (19th c.); 4 seals of Wan-go H. C. Weng 翁萬戈 (1918–2020); 3 seals unidentified. translation: remark: inscription: Colophon by Xiang Yukui 項禹揆 (c. late 1500s–1659): The painting of The Garden for Self-enjoyment on the right by Shih-chou, Mr. Qiu [Qiu Ying] is in the style of Li Lung-mien. Its mood is peaceful, as if meeting the ancient gentlemen face to face among the brushes and silk; it lifts one above the sordid bustle of life. Formerly, my late father handed me this scroll which had only the painting without the written essay. I considered asking a good calligrapher to write the essay to add to it but was afraid that the quality of the writing would not match the painting. Several years later, I saw at a friend's house this essay and poems (of Ssu-ma Kuang] written by Hengshan [Wen Zhengming], once owned by my grandfather; so I spared no expense to obtain it. I rejoiced at this and said: "The divine swords are finally united. How things are pre-destined!" Now my friend Chang Kung-chao's technique for mounting [painting and calligraphy] is excellent. Therefore by daring to take them out and join them together, I can preserve this beautiful story of singular reunion. Xiang Yukui recorded at Hai-yeh-t'ang [hall] two days before New Year's Eve in the jiasheng year of the Chongzhen era [1644]. trans. LYSL/HK/WKH translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1978 opening date: 1979-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979). 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: Wu School Painting Series: The Art of Qiu Ying opening date: 2015-11-10T00:00:00 Wu School Painting Series: The Art of Qiu Ying. Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China (organizer) (November 10-December 20, 2015). title: Where the Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying opening date: 2020-02-09T05:00:00 Where the Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (February 9-May 17, 2020) https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/where-truth-lies-art-qiu-ying. 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). title: Pacific Standard Time: Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China opening date: 2024-09-14T04:00:00 Pacific Standard Time: Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China. The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA (organizer) (September 14, 2024-January 6, 2025) https://huntington.org/exhibition/duotiangong-growing-and-knowing-gardens-china. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Gardens in Chinese Art from Private and Museum Collections. China House Gallery, New York, NY (March 21-May 26, 1968)', 'opening_date': '1968-03-21T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 11-March 29, 1981)', 'opening_date': '1981-02-11T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 27-June 25, 2001).', 'opening_date': '2001-03-27T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 [1525–1590], Jiaxing, China, by descent to his grandson, Xiang Yukui date: footnotes: *
59 seals of Hsiang Yüan-pien [Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴].
citations: Xiang Yukui 項禹揆 [c. late 1500s–1659] date: by 1644 footnotes: *
1 colophon dated 1644 and 7 seals by Hsiang Yü-k'uei [Xiang Yukui 項元汴].
citations: Weng Tonghe 翁同龢 [1830–1904], Beijing, China, by descent to his family date: by 1880–1904 footnotes: *
1 colophon, dated 1880, and 2 seals of Weng Tonghe.
citations: (Wan-go H. C. Weng 翁萬戈 [1918–2020], Lyme, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1978 footnotes: *
4 seals of Weng Wan-go
citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1978– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Weng, Wango H. C. Gardens in Chinese Art from Private and Museum Collections. New York: China Institute in America, 1968. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 6, figs. 6,8 url: Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–47. page number: Reproduced: p. 34; Mentioned: p. 46, no. 139 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613 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. 166, pp. 206-209 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 90–91 url: Tanenbaum, Mary. Fishing on the Terrace: A Collection of Writings, edited by Heather Parks. [Redwood City, CA]: Stanford University Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: pp. 44-45 url: Whiteman, Stephen H. Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe. Seattle [Washington]: University of Washington Press, 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 202-203, fig. 6.6 url: Campbell, Duncan M., Bo Zheng, Kathleen M. Ryor, Carla Nappi, Georges Metailie, Shanshan Liu, Huang Xiao, and Sarah Chen Huang. Growing and Knowing in the Gardens of China. Edited by Michelle Bailey, Nicholas K. Menzies, and Phillip E. Bloom. San Marino: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 2024. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 6, and cat. no. 9, pp. 92–95 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.67/1978.67_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.67/1978.67_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.67/1978.67_full.tif