id: 149762
accession number: 1979.76
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Snow Coloring the World White, 1690. Fa Ruozhen (Chinese, 1613–1696). Handscroll, ink on paper; image: 29.3 x 297.2 cm (11 9/16 x 117 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1979.76
title: Snow Coloring the World White
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creation date: 1690
creation date earliest: 1690
creation date latest: 1690
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique: handscroll, ink on paper
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Handscroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Fa Ruozhen (Chinese, 1613–1696) - artist
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measurements: Image: 29.3 x 297.2 cm (11 9/16 x 117 in.)
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inscription: Artist's title on frontispiece, colophon with 6 poems, and 7 seals: [seal] Ch'ien-k'un i ts'ao t'ing. Snow Coloring the World White. Huang-shan lao-jen, Jo-chen, at the age of seventy eight. [2 seals] Fa yin Jo-chen; Huang-shih shih. (Artist's poems are not translated.)
In the first month of the keng-wu year [1690], 1 was seventy-eight years old. On a snowy day I was pleased to have my good son-in-law Ch'eng-ssu and other gentlemen visiting me at my Tz'u-ching Hall at Yellow Hill. I did this snowscape to record the event. [2 seals] Fa Jo-chen; Tun Chai. [2 seals at end of painting] Fa yin Jo-chen; Huang-shih shih.
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12 additional seals: 8 of Ho Kuan-wu (20th c.); 1 of Wang Nan-p'ing (20th c.); 3 unidentified.
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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: Chinese Gallery 240a Rotation – August 2016
opening date: 2016-08-01T04:00:00
Chinese Gallery 240a Rotation – August 2016. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1, 2016-February 6, 2017).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 234, p. 316-317.', 'opening_date': '1981-01-01T00:00:00'}
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