id: 152825
accession number: 1985.71.12
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Album of Miscellaneous Subjects: Sheer Cliffs, 1788. Min Zhen (Chinese, 1730–after 1788). Album leaf, ink on paper; sheet: 29 x 18.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1985.71.12
title: Sheer Cliffs
title in original language:
series: Album of Miscellaneous Subjects
series in original language: 雑畫圖冊
creation date: 1788
creation date earliest: 1788
creation date latest: 1788
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique: album leaf, ink on paper
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Min Zhen (Chinese, 1730–after 1788) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 29 x 18.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
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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。
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Gallery 122 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 27–August 9, 2000).', 'opening_date': '2000-08-09T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Gallery 122 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 27–September 28, 2001).', 'opening_date': '2001-09-28T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Daili Shanren 戴笠山人 [active late 1700s]
date: 1788–?
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Ni Yun 倪耘 [d. 1864]
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Yan Shiqing 顏世清 [1873–1929]
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Xu Xiaopu 徐小圃 [1887–1961]
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Ding Nianxian 丁念先 [1906–1969]
date: c. mid-1900s
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(Eskenazi Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1985
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1985–
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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
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Sotheby's, Parke, Bernet, New York. Fine Chinese Paintings. June 3, 1985 sale.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 69
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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
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