id: 165736 accession number: 2008.108 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.108 updated: 2024-08-08 15:17:43.648000 Spring Rain Thatched Hut, 1650. Wang Jianzhang (Chinese, active 1621–1662). Handscroll, ink on paper; image: 31 x 81.5 cm (12 3/16 x 32 1/16 in.); overall: 34.2 x 1164 cm (13 7/16 x 458 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2008.108 title: Spring Rain Thatched Hut title in original language: 春雨草堂圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1650 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1650 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: handscroll, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wang Jianzhang (Chinese, active 1621–1662) - artist --- measurements: Image: 31 x 81.5 cm (12 3/16 x 32 1/16 in.); Overall: 34.2 x 1164 cm (13 7/16 x 458 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Title by Wu Zhiying 吳芝瑛 (1868–1933), dated 1910. translation: remark: inscription: 春雨草堂圖。庚寅仲春，為紫玄社兄畫於若耶溪上。 仲初王建章。 translation: remark: inscription: 12 colophons by Gong Weiliu’s 宮偉鏐 (1611–1680) contemporaries: Fang Gongqian 方拱乾 (1596–1667, jinshi of 1628); Jiang Cai 姜埰 (1607–1673); Liang Yizhang 梁以樟 (1608–1665); Du Shaokai 杜紹凱 (also named Du Jie 杜岕, 1617–after 1689), dated 1648; Zhao Kaixin 趙開心 (d. 1663), dated 1647; Zhao Erbian 趙而忭 (d. 1658); Yu Yaoguang 余耀光, dated 1649; Yao Quan 姚佺, dated 1648; Chen Taisun 陳台孫 (b. 1611, jinshi of 1640); (Monk) Shao 韶; Du Zhujin 杜祝進; and Tang Shi 唐時. translation: remark: inscription: 此研田莊居士王建章為先太史紫元公所作春雨草堂圖也。居士字仲初，明崇禎間人，與先太史及惲香山相友善。喜畫佛像，自謂不讓李公麟。山水祖述董源，筆力雄健，有不可羈勒之概。香山稱其墨有五采，非世人所知。然性廉重，非同志不輕落筆，人得其寸圖尺縑，必相與忻賞，如獲蜼彝兕敦，非人世間物也！見先太史筆記，此圖寫雨景，而氣韻生動，勃勃於不能止。每一展覽，覺滿紙雲烟，墨瀋猶濕，如寫吾先人胸中未盡之邱壑也。圖後題詠，多一時名手，想見文采風流之盛。迄今二百餘年，舊德先疇，遺風未沫。吾子孫其永寶之，如與吾先人接謦咳於一堂，為感思之助，其敢作圖畫觀乎！同時香山亦有圖佚去己久，不知異日能為延津之合否。壬申長夏本昂重裝敬識。 translation: remark: inscription: Collectors' seals including: Gong Ben'ang 宮本昂 (1821–1874); Lian Qian 廉泉 (1868–1932); Wu Zhiying 吳芝瑛 (1868–1933) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 7-July 7, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2015-01-07T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Gong Weiliu 宮偉鏐 [1611–1680], given by descent through his family to Gong Ben'ang date: 1650-1680 footnotes: citations: Gong Ben’ang 宮本昂 [1821–1874], by descent to relatives Lian Quan and his wife Wu Zhiying date: ?-1874 footnotes: citations: Lian Quan 廉泉 [1868–1932] and Wu Zhiying 吳芝瑛 [1868–1933], Hangzhou, China date: by 1910-1933 footnotes: citations: (Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-2008 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2008- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Moss, Paul. This Single Feather of Auspicious Light: Old Chinese Painting and Calligraphy. [London]: Sydney L. Moss Ltd, 2010. page number: Mentioned: vol. 2, pp. 280-295 url: “Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2008-2009.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 60, 2010, pp. 95–159. page number: Reproduced: p. 106 url: www.jstor.org/stable/40863712 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. 336-341 url: 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: pp. 337-338 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.108/2008.108_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.108/2008.108_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.108/2008.108_full.tif