id: 152550 accession number: 1985.366 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.366 updated: 2020-11-04 21:26:22.765000 Plum Blossoms, 1747. Wang Shishen (Chinese, 1686-1759). Hanging scroll, ink on paper; overall: 142.7 x 75.5 cm (56 3/16 x 29 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.366 title: Plum Blossoms title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1747 creation date earliest: 1747 creation date latest: 1747 current location: creditline: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: hanging scroll, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wang Shishen (Chinese, 1686-1759) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 142.7 x 75.5 cm (56 3/16 x 29 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's 4 poems, inscription, signature, and 3 seals: Looking for plum blossoms with friends, enjoying the fresh clear day, My black shoes and cotton socks feel light. With fine groves in front of the ancient temple door, I walk to and fro, as in a painting. One clear chime breaks the silence in the Mountains, All the heroes of the Six Dynasties, after a thousand years, are forgotten. Enjoy the idle days under a Buddhist window, Plum blossoms monopolize the east wind with their branches. Next to the little stone bridge is a path leading west, Wherever you walk, your staff will touch some dike of the Sui Dynasty. Tourists love only the Ch'i-ling temple, So sea-gulls take to startled flight and horses neigh. After ten years I revisited the I-su An, The old plums are no longer on the southeast side of the garden. I pass a peaceful night, though unable to offer fragrant flowers, As bright moonlight cheerlessly falls upon the Buddhist shrine. Four poems composed on our way from the Iron Buddha Temple to the I-su An Retreat at P'ing-shan, while looking for plum blossoms with friends. Ch'ao-lin, Wang Shih-shen painted [this]. [2 seals] Wang Shih-sheng; Chin-jen fu. [seal, lower right corner] Ch'ao-lin. trans. WKH/LYSL 3 colophons, 3 additional inscriptions, and 23 additional seals: 1 inscription, dated 1739, and 2 seals of Mao Yin-k'uei (17th-18th c.); 1 colophon and 3 seals of Lu K'uei-hsün (17th-18th c.); 1 colophon and 3 seals of Chu Chin (1686-1769); 1 colophon and 4 seals of Yü Pi-k'uei (17th-18th c.); 1 inscription and 2 seals of Yao Shih-yü (1695-1749); 1 inscription and 3 seals of ? Shu-teh; 1 seal of Shen Wu (dates unknown); 1 seal of Lou Ts'un (19th c.); 2 seals of Ch'eng Ch'i (20th c.); 2 unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection opening date: 1988-09-14T04:00:00 A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Osaka Municipal Museum, 1969: Yoshu hakkai, p. 38.
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 267, p. 365-366.
Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119); March 12, 2003 - July 16, 2003. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.366/1985.366_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.366/1985.366_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.366/1985.366_full.tif