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accession number:	2004.1.41
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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Search the Mountain: Leaf 41, 1200s. China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Album, ink on paper; sheet: 34.3 x 38.5 cm (13 1/2 x 15 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund in honor of Dr. Ju-hsi Chou and Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange) 2004.1.41

title:				Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Search the Mountain: Leaf 41
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series in original language:	佛道主題畫冊
creation date:			1200s
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1299
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund in honor of Dr. Ju-hsi Chou and Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange)
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culture:	China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
technique:	Album, ink on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Album leaf
type:		Painting
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measurements: Sheet: 34.3 x 38.5 cm (13 1/2 x 15 3/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Wang Hui 王翬 [1632–1717]
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	Li Jiale 李嘉樂 [jinshi of 1863]
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	Zhu Hang 朱沆 [active 19th century]
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	Dr. F. R. (Fredrik Robert) Martin [1868–1933], Stockholm, Sweden, and Munich, Germany
	date: 1910-?
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	István “Stephen" Junkunc III [1904-1978], by descent to his son Stephen Junkunc IV
	date: 1947-78
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	(Stephen Junkunc IV [b. 1937], Miami, FL, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1978-2004
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2004-
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wall description:
The principal—and largest—figure in this leaf portrays Erlang, a celestial commander in a popular myth. Here he wears full armor and holds his sword. Seated by a pine tree, he orders his celestial army to rid Mt. Guankou of the undesirable creatures in the wilderness, including a wolf, a small alligator, and a monkey dressed in human clothes. This subject was first painted by a Northern Song artist, Gao Yi, and remained popular through the Southern Song period and during the Ming dynasty. In this album, the Soushan Tu (Search the Mountain) uses 10 leaves to complete its imagery. This is now the earliest known version of the narrative, as Gao Yi’s has not survived.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Martin, F. R. <em>Zeichnungen nach Wu tao-tze aus der götter- und sagenwelt Chinas</em>. München: F. Bruckmann a.g, 1913.
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	Fong, Wen. <em>Images of the Mind: Selections from the Edward L. Elliott Family and John B. Elliott Collections of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting at the Art Museum, Princeton University</em>. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1984.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 324, cat. no. 19, fig. a
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	Christie, Manson &amp; Woods International Inc. <em>Fine Chinese Ceramics, Paintings and Works of Art</em>. 21 September 2000. Lot 204.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 141-46
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	Chung, Anita. "Re-emergence: New Chinese Galleries and Art Acquisitions of The Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>Orientations</em> vol 44 no. 8 (November/December 2013): 64-75.
	page number: 	Reproduced p. 67. fig. 4
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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. 174-195
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	Silbergeld, Jerome, and Eugene Yuejin Wang, eds. <em>The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture</em>. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016.
	page number: 	Mention: p. 171; Reproduced: p. 176, fig, 5.4
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