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:				
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creation date:			late 1700s–early 1800s
creation date earliest:		1780
creation date latest:		1820
current location:		235A Japanese
creditline:			Kelvin Smith Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)  - artist

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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.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection
	opening date:   1988-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection</i>. 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
	<i>Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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
	<i>Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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
	<i>Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (June 3, 2016–January 10, 2017).

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PROVENANCE

	(Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1988
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1988–
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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 <em>kanbun.</em> 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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"The Year in Review for 1988." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 76, no. 2 (1989): 30-75.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 205, p. 74; Reproduced: no. 205, p. 59
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25160061

	<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara</em> [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
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	<em>Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> [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
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	Longhi, Leighton R. <em>Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art</em>. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 317, fig. 315
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IMAGES

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