id:			159728
accession number:	1997.103
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.103
updated:		2025-02-28 12:24:42.539000

Washing the Feet (from the Dusty World), 1570. Wen Boren (Chinese, 1502–1575). Hanging scroll mounted on a panel; ink and color on paper; image: 170.2 x 79.4 cm (67 x 31 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry, 1997.103

title:				Washing the Feet (from the Dusty World)
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creation date:			1570
creation date earliest:		1570
creation date latest:		1570
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creditline:			Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
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culture:	China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	Hanging scroll mounted on a panel; ink and color on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Wen Boren (Chinese, 1502–1575)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 170.2 x 79.4 cm (67 x 31 1/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Artist's inscription, signature, and 4 seals:

Shaking one's clothes on a thousand-jen peak,/
Washing one's feet in a ten-thousand-li stream.

	In the gengwu year of the Longqing era [1570], fifteenth day of the tenth month, Wufeng shanren, Wen Boren recorded a special occasion. [2 seals] Wufeng shanren; Wen Boren Te-ch'eng chang. [2 seals, lower right corner] Te-ch'eng; She-shan chang.

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	inscription:	2 additional seals of Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915-1963)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c)
	opening date:   2017-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</em>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).', 'opening_date': '1980-11-07T05:00:00Z'}

* {'description': '<em>The Fragrance of Ink: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. A. Dean Perry</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-August 3, 1997).', 'opening_date': '1997-04-19T04:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to Mrs. A. Dean Perry)
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	Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1997
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1997–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 184, p. 236
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	Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. <em>Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku </em>[中國繪畫總合圖錄 = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings], 第 1卷. アメリカ·カナダ篇 [= vol. 1 American and Canadian collections]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1982.
	page number: 	#A23-013, p. I-287
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IMAGES

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