id:			160728
accession number:	1998.78.13
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.78.13
updated:		2024-10-09 19:45:00.798000

Eighteen Views of Huzhou: Mt. Daochang, c. 1588. Song Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606). Album leaf; ink and color on silk; sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1998.78.13

title:				Mt. Daochang
title in original language:	道場山
series:				Eighteen Views of Huzhou
series in original language:	湖州十八景圖
creation date:			c. 1588
creation date earliest:		1583
creation date latest:		1593
current location:		
creditline:			The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
copyright:			

---

culture:	China, Jiaxing, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique:	Album leaf; ink and color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Album leaf
type:		Painting
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

* Song Xu (Chinese, 1525-c. 1606)  - artist
Song Xu (宋旭, 1525–c. 1606), was a versatile Chinese painter active in northern Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. He was skilled in landscapes, boundary paintings (界畫, paintings of architecture), figure painting, and Buddhist painting. Although born a commoner, he also cultivated the literati arts of poetry and calligraphy. He studied Chan Buddhism and eventually became a Buddhist priest himself.
---

measurements: Sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:


inscriptions:

	inscription:	道場山：郡城南去，可五六里，為伏虎禪師道場。上有伏虎亭、望湖亭。南可見武林諸山。北盡震澤群峯之勝。俯窺城郭樓臺，佳麗如畫。
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
	opening date:   2023-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Main Asian Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 27, 2003-March 10, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-10-27T00:00:00'}

---

PROVENANCE

	(Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1998
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1998–
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact:


digital description:


wall description:

---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 287-295
	url:		

---

IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.78.13/1998.78.13_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.78.13/1998.78.13_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.78.13/1998.78.13_full.tif