id: 160729
accession number: 1998.78.14
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.78.14
updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:38.253000
Eighteen Views of Huzhou: Baoyang Lake, 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 1998.78.14
title: Baoyang Lake
title in original language: 包陽湖
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
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culture: China, Jiaxing, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique: Album leaf; ink and color on silk
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
type: Painting
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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.
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measurements: Sheet: 26.4 x 28.4 cm (10 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
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inscriptions:
inscription: 包陽湖:自此數里,東出太湖甚近。北至香山可數里。過此即宜興界矣。
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta
opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00
China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Main Asian Gallery Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4-July 23, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-03-04T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1998
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citations:
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1998–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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. 287-295
url:
Von Spee, Clarissa. "China's Southern Paradise: Treasures From the Lower Yangzi Delta At the Cleveland Museum of Art." Arts of Asia (Winter 2023): 98-104.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 101-102, fig. 6
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