id: 160141 accession number: 1997.99 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.99 updated: 2023-03-15 15:46:30.414000 The Nine Elders of the Mountain of Fragrance, 1426–52. Attributed to Xie Huan (Chinese, c. 1370-c.1450). Handscroll, ink and color on silk; painting: 29.4 x 148.9 cm (11 9/16 x 58 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.99 title: The Nine Elders of the Mountain of Fragrance title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1426–52 creation date earliest: 1426 creation date latest: 1452 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: handscroll, ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Xie Huan (Chinese, c. 1370-c.1450) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 29.4 x 148.9 cm (11 9/16 x 58 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 4 seals: 2 of Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525–1590); 1 of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736-95); 1 of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907–2003) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection opening date: 1999-09-03T00:00:00 The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 3, 1999-January 9, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 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). --- PROVENANCE Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 [1525-1590], Jiaxing, China date: footnotes: citations: The Qianlong Emperor, reigned 1736–95, Beijing, China date: footnotes: citations: C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?before 1980-1997 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1997- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 155-156, cat. no. 133 url: Annual Report 1997. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 1998. page number: Mentioned: p. 44 url: Smith, Judith G., and Wen Fong. Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting. New York: Dept. of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 252, fig. 27 and p. 252, fig. 28 url: Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 310, no. 27 url: Ji'nan, Yin. " Politics or Entertainment? Examining Jiangxi Scholar Officials and Zhejiang Painters through the Lens of the Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden." In Ming China: Courts and Contacts, 1400-1450. Craig Clunas, Jessica Harrison-Hall, and Yu Ping Luk., eds., p. 102-103. London: The British Museum, 2016. page number: Reproduced: pp. 102-103 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.99/1997.99_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.99/1997.99_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.99/1997.99_full.tif