id: 161705 accession number: 2000.69 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.69 updated: 2024-04-10 11:01:07.560000 Cleansing Medicinal Herbs in the Stream on a Spring Day, 1703. Yu Zhiding (Chinese, 1647–c. 1716). Handscroll; ink and color on silk; painting only: 36.2 x 132.5 cm (14 1/4 x 52 3/16 in.); overall in heigh: 38.7 cm (15 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2000.69 title: Cleansing Medicinal Herbs in the Stream on a Spring Day title in original language: 春泉洗藥圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1703 creation date earliest: 1703 creation date latest: 1703 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: Handscroll; ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Yu Zhiding (Chinese, 1647–c. 1716) - artist --- measurements: Painting only: 36.2 x 132.5 cm (14 1/4 x 52 3/16 in.); Overall in heigh: 38.7 cm (15 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Title by Chen Yixi. translation: remark: inscription: 姑射仙人冰雪膚，新詩傳唱滿通都。/ 極知遲暮難為別，更展春泉洗藥圖。 translation: remark: inscription: Colophon by Chen Tingjing 陳廷敬 (1639–1712). Colophon by Wang Hongxu 王鴻緒 (1645–1723), dated 1707. Colophon by Song Luo 宋犖 (1634–1714). Colophon by Liu Yan 劉巗. Colophon by Jing Xikui 涇西夔. Colophon by Liu Yan 劉巗. Colophon by Cao Yin 曹寅. Colophon by Wang Shihong 汪士鋐. Colophon by Wang Shidan 王式丹 (1645–1718), dated 1712. Colophon by Shi Shenyi 史申義 (1661–1712), dated 1712. Colophon by Yin Yuqing 殷餘慶, dated 1712. translation: remark: inscription: Colophon by Chen Shixia 陳時夏, dated 1729. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c) opening date: 2017-02-11T05:00:00 Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 22-April 22, 2002).', 'opening_date': '2002-01-22T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-07-23T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Shi Shenyi 史申義 [1661–1712], Jiangdu 江都, Jiangsu province, China, by descent to his family date: 1703–12 footnotes: citations: Shi family collection, Jiangdu, Jiangsu province, China, date: 1712–late 1700s or early 1800s footnotes: citations: Zhang Yin 張崟 [1761–1829], Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, China date: late 1700s–early 1800s footnotes: *
Zhang Yin was a painter from Zhenjiang, a city fairly close to the Shi family's hometown of Jiangdu.
citations: Zaobao 皁保 [d. 1882] date: footnotes: *
Zaobao was a Manchu dignitary. His high-profiled career began with his jinshi degree in 1845 and ended with his role heading the Ministry of Justice in 1876.
citations: (A dealer in Liuli Chang 琉璃廠, Beijing, China, sold to Zhou Zhaoxiang) date: early 1900s? footnotes: citations: Zhou Zhaoxiang 周肇祥 [1888–1954] date: early 1900s–? footnotes: *
Zhou Zhaoxiang, a juren in the last Qing period, was also active in the government of the Republic of China. He was a scholar and poet in addition to excelling in landscape and flower-and-bird paintings. He was eager to educate painters in China and involved himself in cultural exchanges with Japan.
citations: Fujii Yurinkan Museum, Kyoto, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (James J. Freeman, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–2000 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2000– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: #A22-149 url: Zhou, Zhaoxiang 周肇祥, Zhao Heng 趙珩, and Hai Bo 海波. Liulichang za ji 琉璃厂杂记. Beijing Shi: Beijing Yan shan chu ban she, 1995. page number: Mentioned: pp. 17–18 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” October 6, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: Mentioned: p. 2 url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4354 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 and Reproduced: pp. 425–430 url: Scheier-Dolberg, Joseph. “A Portrait of Ambition: Yu Zhiding’s Thatched Cottage at the Western Stream / 志氣寫真：以禹之鼎的《西溪草堂圖》為例的個案研究.” Arts Asiatiques 72 (2017): 59–80. page number: Comparative Material. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/44656689 Scheier-Dolberg, Joseph. Yu Zhiding and the Envisioning of the Early Qing World. PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2018. page number: Comparative Material. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.69/2000.69_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.69/2000.69_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2000.69/2000.69_full.tif