id: 152821 accession number: 1985.71 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.71 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:57.818000 Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, 1788. Min Zhen (Chinese, 1730–after 1788). Album of twelve leaves; ink on paper; each leaf: 29 x 18.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.); overall with mount: 35.6 x 22.1 cm (14 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1985.71 title: Album of Miscellaneous Subjects title in original language: 雑畫圖冊 series: series in original language: creation date: 1788 creation date earliest: 1788 creation date latest: 1788 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: Album of twelve leaves; ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Min Zhen (Chinese, 1730–after 1788) - artist --- measurements: Each leaf: 29 x 18.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.); Overall with mount: 35.6 x 22.1 cm (14 x 8 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 予素有怪石之僻。余友戴笠山人嗜予畫,亦猶予之嗜怪石焉。向故訂約,以所好相易。值余奔馳遷延,今夏偶憶及怪石之在吾齋已五載。繪此以踐前言。誌以奇峭為十二冊之終。時戊申六月六日,正齋閔貞謹識。 translation: remark: inscription: Six seals appearing on the leaves: Min Zhen 閔貞; Zheng zhai 正齋; Qingqiao 青橋; Zhen 貞; Liao tang 蓼塘; Min Zhen zhi yin 閔貞之印。 translation: remark: inscription: 正齋傳世真跡,應推此冊為第一。 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Daili Shanren 戴笠山人 [active late 1700s] date: 1788–? footnotes: citations: Ni Yun 倪耘 [d. 1864] date: footnotes: citations: Yan Shiqing 顏世清 [1873–1929] date: footnotes: citations: Xu Xiaopu 徐小圃 [1887–1961] date: footnotes: citations: Ding Nianxian 丁念先 [1906–1969] date: c. mid-1900s footnotes: citations: (Eskenazi Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1985 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1985– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ding, Nianxian 丁念先. Nian sheng lou du hua xiao ji [念聖樓讀畫小紀 = Chinese calligraphy and painting of various dynasties in the collection of Nianshenglou]. Taibei: Wen xing za zhi she, 1961. page number: Mentioned: p. 41, no. 85 url: Fukunaga, Takehiko 福永武彥, and Howard L. Rogers. Kinnō, Bunjinga suihen. chiyūgo (9) 金農, 文人画粋編. 中国篇 9. Tōkyō: Chūōkoronsha, 1976. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pls. 94–97, p. 179, fig. 30 url: Sotheby's, Parke, Bernet, New York. Fine Chinese Paintings. June 3, 1985 sale. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 69 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. 462–465 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.71/1985.71_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.71/1985.71_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.71/1985.71_full.tif