id: 152831 accession number: 1985.71.7 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.71.7 updated: 2020-11-04 21:26:58.545000 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 title in original language: 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 --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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/1985.71.7/1985.71.7_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.71.7/1985.71.7_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.71.7/1985.71.7_full.tif