id: 160140 accession number: 1997.98 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.98 updated: 2023-08-23 23:41:15.092000 A Scholar's Retreat amid Autumn Trees, c. 1403. Wang Fu (Chinese, 1362–1416). Hanging scroll, ink on paper; image: 58.7 x 27.2 cm (23 1/8 x 10 11/16 in.); overall: 82.3 x 40 cm (32 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.98 title: A Scholar's Retreat amid Autumn Trees title in original language: 秋林書舍圖 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1403 creation date earliest: 1401 creation date latest: 1406 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: hanging scroll, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wang Fu (Chinese, 1362–1416) - artist --- measurements: Image: 58.7 x 27.2 cm (23 1/8 x 10 11/16 in.); Overall: 82.3 x 40 cm (32 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 青山疎雨晩來晴，林木蕭條爽氣生。/ 記得當年齋館夜，一窗燈火讀書聲。/ 公義求寫秋林書舍，復徵題，遂賦此。王紱 [印] 孟端; 友石生; 破研齋 translation: remark: inscription: 飛飛木葉亂辭枝，裊裊涼風入袂時。/ 床上詩書勤課子，夜深窗下有吾伊。 translation: remark: inscription: 林僻茅齋靜，秋清露氣寒。/ 閑居讀書者，不為要求官。 translation: remark: inscription: 碧樹宵含露氣涼，青燈孤照讀書床。/ 十年勤苦何須論，一日聲名達帝郷。 translation: remark: inscription: 溪山遠帶暮雲平，幾處長林映晩晴。/ 瑟瑟秋聲來樹杪，寒燈明滅月三更。 translation: remark: inscription: 5 seals of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-95); 1 seal of Tang Xun (dates unknown); 2 seals of He Zheng 何澂 (d. 1888); 3 seals of Cheng Qi 程琦 (1911–1988); 2 seals of Li Guochao 李國超 (20th century); 2 seals unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968). * Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. 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). * The Fragrance of Ink: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. A. Dean Perry. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-August 3, 1997). --- PROVENANCE Yao Jiheng 姚際恒 [1647–about 1714] date: footnotes: citations: Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperor Qianlong, r. 1736–1795) date: footnotes: citations: Aisin-Gioro Mianyi 愛新覺羅綿億 [1764–1815] date: footnotes: citations: He Zheng 何澂 [d. about 1888] date: footnotes: citations: Nagao Uzan 長尾雨山 [1864–1942], Kyoto, Japan date: footnotes: citations: Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988] date: footnotes: citations: Mr. A. Dean Perry [1909-1987] and Mrs. Helen Wade Greene Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1997 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1997- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Wang Fu painted this going-away present and 3 friends added poems wishing the best for their departing friend Gongyi. digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Seals of Chinese Painters and Collectors of the Ming and Ch'ing Periods page number: 640 url: Yao, Jiheng 姚際恒 . Hao gu tang jia cang shu hua ji 好古堂家藏書畫記. Taipei: Yi wen yin shu guan 藝文印書館, 1964. (preface dated 1699) page number: ch. 2, p. 88 url: Harada, Kinjirō 原田謹次郎. Nihon genzai Shina meiga mokuroku 日本現在支那名畫目錄. Tōkyō: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha, 1938. page number: p. 128 url: Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. page number: cat. no. 266 url: Ishikawa, Jun 石川淳, Yoshitaka Iriya 入矢義高, Yūjirō Nakata 中田勇次郎, and Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸. Kō Kōbō, Gei San, Ō Mō, Go Chin [黄公望, 倪瓚, 王蒙, 呉鎮]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979. page number: Reproduced: p. 178, pl. 87 url: Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 117, p. 142 url: Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chugoku kaiga shi [中國繪畫史 = A History of Chinese Painting]. Tōkyō: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 136, no. 130 url: Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku [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: Reproduced: #A23-005, p. I-286 url: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院. Hai wai yi zhen. Zai xu 海外遺珎. 繪畫. 再續. Taipei: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1990. page number: Reproduced: p. 78 url: Li, Huishu. Exquisite Moments: West Lake & Southern Song Art. New York, NY: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 2001. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 7, pp. 72-73 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 207-210 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Mentioned: p. 208 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.98/1997.98_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.98/1997.98_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.98/1997.98_full.tif