id:			151540
accession number:	1983.85
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.85
updated:		2024-03-26 11:01:43.674000

Listening to the Qin (Zither), 1150–after 1225. Liu Songnian (Chinese, c. 1150-after 1225). Album leaf; ink and slight color on silk; image: 23.8 x 24.6 cm (9 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1983.85

title:				Listening to the Qin (Zither)
title in original language:	聽琴圖
series:				
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creation date:			1150–after 1225
creation date earliest:		1150
creation date latest:		1225
current location:		240A Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
technique:	Album leaf; ink and slight color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Album leaf
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Liu Songnian (Chinese, c. 1150-after 1225)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 23.8 x 24.6 cm (9 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	劉松年
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1983
	opening date:   1984-02-22T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1983</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).

	title:		Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection
	opening date:   1991-09-17T04:00:00
	<i>Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

	title:		Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1998-02-21T00:00:00
	<i>Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

	title:		The Resonance of the Qin in Far Eastern Art
	opening date:   1999-09-16T00:00:00
	<i>The Resonance of the Qin in Far Eastern Art</i>. China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 16-December 12, 1999).

	title:		Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting (Chinese art rotation)
	opening date:   2023-11-10T05:00:00
	<i>Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting (Chinese art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2023-May 5, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988], Hong
Kong, to his daughter Julia C. Chiang
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	Mrs. Julia C. Chiang, New Jersey
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	(Clark Cheng, Mountainside, NJ, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1983
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1983–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “Listening to the Ch'in by Liu Sung-Nien.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 73, no. 9, 1986, pp. 372–387.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 374-376
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159962

	<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara</em> [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]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 41, cat. no. 18
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	Addiss, Stephen, Kenneth J. DeWoskin, and Mitchell Clark. <em>The resonance of the qin in East Asian art</em>. New York: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 1999.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 9 pp. 74-75
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	Helen Dunn Grinnell, "Exhibition Reviews" <em>Orientations</em>, vol. 31, no. 1 January 2000.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 72
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	Handler, Sarah. <em>Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture</em>. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 17.3, p. 297
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	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 61–64
	url:		

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