id: 152830 accession number: 1985.71.6 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.71.6 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:57.873000 Su Dongpo, 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 1985.71.6 title: Su Dongpo title in original language: 蘇東坡 series: series in original language: 雑畫圖冊 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 leaf, 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: Sheet: 29 x 18.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscription by Min Chen on the last leaf: I have a habit of collecting strange rocks. My friend Tai-li shan-jen* treasures my paintings as much as I treasure strange rocks. Once we agreed to exchange what we love with each other. However, my busy activities have kept me from carrying this out. This summer I realized that this strange rock has been sitting in my studio for five years, so I painted this to fulfill my old promise. As a record, I chose the grotesque cliff in the last scene of this twelve-leaf album. Cheng-chai, Min Chen inscribed this on the sixth day of the sixth month [July 9] of the wu-shen year [1788]. * Tai-li shan-jen is Wang Li [tzu: Li-fu] tr. Hou-mei Ishida Six seals appearing on the leaves: Min Chen, Cheng-chai, Ching-ch'iao, Chen, Liao-t'ang, Min Chen chih-yin. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Gallery 122 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21–October 29, 1999).', 'opening_date': '1999-10-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Gallery 122 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 8–November 14, 2000).', 'opening_date': '2000-11-14T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10–April 7, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2004-04-07T00:00:00'} --- 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/1985.71.6/1985.71.6_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.71.6/1985.71.6_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.71.6/1985.71.6_full.tif