id:			152831
accession number:	1985.71.7
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.71.7
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Dragon amid Clouds, 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 1985.71.7

title:				Dragon amid Clouds
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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:	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.


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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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: 	Reproduced: pp. 462-465
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