id: 149414 accession number: 1978.67 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.67 updated: 2022-11-30 10:01:27.573000 The Garden for Solitary Enjoyment, 1515–52. Qiu Ying (Chinese, 1494–1552). Handscroll; ink and slight 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: The Garden for Solitary Enjoyment title in original language: 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 slight 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 Ssu-ma Kuang and one poem of Su Shih written by Wen Zhengming in 1558. 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 (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. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Gardens in Chinese Art from Private and Museum Collections. China House Gallery, New York, NY (March 21-May 26, 1968) * Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 11-March 29, 1981) * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 27-June 25, 2001). --- 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: 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: --- 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