id:			161781
accession number:	2001.120
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.120
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:44.068000

Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man, 1705. Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765), and Wei Shijie (Chinese, 1667-after 1747). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; painting: 130 x 47.2 cm (51 3/16 x 18 9/16 in.); overall: 281 x 95 cm (110 5/8 x 37 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of various donors by exchange 2001.120

title:				Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man
title in original language:	層崗飛瀑圖
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creation date:			1705
creation date earliest:		1705
creation date latest:		1705
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creditline:			Gift of various donors by exchange
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culture:	China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682–c. 1765)  - artist

* Wei Shijie (Chinese, 1667-after 1747)  - artist

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measurements: Painting: 130 x 47.2 cm (51 3/16 x 18 9/16 in.); Overall: 281 x 95 cm (110 5/8 x 37 3/8 in.)
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	inscription:	寫照余非擅，營圖爾自高。/
偶然裁尺幅，毋待著三豪。/
護嶺笙疑徹，豐誠劍且韜。/
懸崖對飛雪，如聼廣陵濤。/

士傑為秋岳道盟作小影並題。
[印]：魏士傑，子良
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	inscription:	僕自棄孤，乍設己隨四方。蓬根飄零，竟成浩嘆。

媿窮途於阮籍。十年悔不讀書。羞問字之侯芭。千里何曾負笈。而況匡廬既遠。空懐飛雪之崖。延津未遥，莫辯化龍之劍。

慈親在望，空事遠游。杜宇為聲，不如歸去。嗟乎，半生岐途，未免亡羊。百尺竿頭，如何進歩。

從前孟浪，圖此猖狂。
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	inscription:	Top inscription on the painting by Jiang Hongdao 將弘道, dated yiyou, the forty-fourth year of the Kangxi era (1705)
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	inscription:	Seven additional colophons on the silk mounting
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c)
	opening date:   2017-02-11T05:00:00
	<i>Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017).

	title:		Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c
	opening date:   2019-08-12T04:00:00
	<i>Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 12, 2019-February 2, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Hua Pinyu 華品玉 (active 1800s)
	date: 1800s
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	(Christie's, New York, Important Classical Chinese Paintings, June 1, 1989 sale, lot 30)
	date: June 1, 1989
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	Private Collection of a Min Chiu Society 敏求精舍 member, Hong Kong
	date: 1989?-1999?
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	(Christie's, Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Classical Painting an Calligraphy, April 25, 1999, lot 270)
	date: April 25, 1999
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	(Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-2001
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2001-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Fukunaga, Takehiko 福永武彥, and Howard L. Rogers. <em>Kinnō,</em> <em>Bunjinga suihen. chiyūgo (9)</em> 金農, 文人画粋編. 中国篇 9. Tōkyō: Chūōkoronsha, 1986.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 116, pp. 184-185; Reproduced: no. 116, p. 97
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	Christie's, New York. <em>Important Classical Chinese Paintings. </em>Thursday, June 1, 1989, at 10:00 A.M.
	page number: 	Lot 30
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	<em>Li dai wen wu cui zhen: Min qiu jing she san shi zhou nian ji nian zhan</em> [历代文物萃珍: 敏求精舍三十周年纪念展 =  Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition Catalogue]. Hong Kong: Min qiu jing she, 1990.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 47 p. 122
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	Christie's Hong Kong. <em>Fine classical Chinese paintings and calligraph</em>y. April 25, 1999.
	page number: 	Lot 270
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	<em>“</em>Worlds of Wonder.” <em>Kaikodo Journal</em>, XX (Autumn 2001).
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 296, fig. 3
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	Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 440-446
	url:		

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