id: 153810 accession number: 1988.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.1 updated: 2022-06-10 18:38:38.896000 Chinese Beauty, late 1700s–early 1800s. Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; image: 96 x 37 cm (37 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.); overall: 184.2 x 53.3 cm (72 1/2 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1988.1 title: Chinese Beauty title in original language: 唐美人図 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1700s–early 1800s creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1820 current location: 235A Japanese creditline: Kelvin Smith Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820) - artist --- measurements: Image: 96 x 37 cm (37 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.); Overall: 184.2 x 53.3 cm (72 1/2 x 21 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection opening date: 1988-09-14T04:00:00 A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988). title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). title: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). title: Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235 opening date: 2022-04-08T04:00:00 Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (June 3, 2016–January 10, 2017). --- PROVENANCE (Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1988 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1988– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Ukiyo-e artists’ exploration of beautiful people extended to figures from other lands. Here, an elegant Chinese palace lady holding a fan stands before a banana plant. The poem at the top is written in a Japanese appropriation of Chinese called kanbun. Based on its imagery of a palanquin (an enclosed couch with poles used for carrying passengers), silk fan, and autumn winds, it may allude to the story of Lady Ban (about 48 BC–about AD 2). A Chinese beauty famous for her scholarly achievements, Ban was once consort to an emperor but later lost his favor. In a poem attributed to her, she compared herself to a used silk fan put away in autumn. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "The Year in Review for 1988." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (1989): 30-75. page number: Mentioned: no. 205, p. 74; Reproduced: no. 205, p. 59 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25160061 Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 147, cat. no. 98 url: Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 21, p. 72 url: Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019. page number: Reproduced: p. 317, fig. 315 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.1/1988.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.1/1988.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.1/1988.1_full.tif