id: 160735 accession number: 1998.78.3 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.78.3 updated: 2024-08-08 15:17:11.618000 Eighteen Views of Huzhou: Mt. Wuzhan, 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 1998.78.3 title: Mt. Wuzhan title in original language: 烏瞻山 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: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- 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. 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: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.78.3/1998.78.3_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.78.3/1998.78.3_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1998.78.3/1998.78.3_full.tif