id: 149658 accession number: 1979.50 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.50 updated: 2023-08-23 22:38:24.368000 Nine Dragon Pool, 1690s. Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623–1697). Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper; image: 92 x 43.5 cm (36 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.); overall: 200.7 x 71.1 cm (79 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1979.50 title: Nine Dragon Pool title in original language: 九龍潭圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1690s creation date earliest: 1690 creation date latest: 1697 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623–1697) - artist --- measurements: Image: 92 x 43.5 cm (36 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.); Overall: 200.7 x 71.1 cm (79 x 28 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 太古蟄龍醒，蠺叢霹靂開。 五溪雲不去，三峽雪飛來。 瞿山, 清。 [印] 梅清; 淵公 translation: remark: inscription: 2 additional seals: 1 of Dai Xi 戴煕 (1801–1860); 1 unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). 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). title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * To-So-Gen-Min, II 唐宋元明. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan (November 24-December 16, 1928). * 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). --- PROVENANCE Dai Xi 戴煕 [1801–1860] date: footnotes: citations: Sakuraki Shun’ichi 櫻木俊一 [early 1900s] date: footnotes: citations: (Yabumoto Shogoro 藪本莊五郎 [1900s], Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1979 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1979- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Huangshan 黃山 is a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its spectacular rocky peaks, sea of clouds, oddly shaped pine trees, and hot springs. digital description: In the second half of the 1600s, Huangshan 黃山 (Mt. Huang or Yellow Mountain) attracted many visitors and inspired artists like Mei Qing. He probably sketched the Nine Dragon Pool on his second trip to the mountain range in 1690, at the advanced age of 68 sui. This dramatic waterfall has nine curves, each forming an emerald green pool. After heavy rain, the rushing water looks like nine white dragons. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Tō Sō Gen Min meigaten-gō [唐宋元明名画展号]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun Hakkōjo, 1928. page number: II, pl. 256 url: Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Shina meiga hōkan [支那名畫寶鑒 = The pageant of Chinese painting]. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1936. page number: Reproduced: pl. 775 url: Mei Qushan hua ji 梅瞿山画集. Shanghai: [Shanghai ren min mei shu chu ban she], 1960. page number: Reproduced: pl. 2 url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 117, p. 85 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667 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. 229, p. 320 url: Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 70-71, cat. no. 43 url: Steuber, Jason. China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature. New York: Welcome Books, 2007. page number: p. 196 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 391-396 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: p. 393 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.50/1979.50_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.50/1979.50_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.50/1979.50_full.tif