id:			79576
accession number:	2015.467
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.467
updated:		2023-08-23 17:50:17.043000

Chinese Literatus in an Autumn Landscape, late 1400s. Josui Sōen (Japanese, active c. 1489–1500). Hanging scroll, ink on paper; mounted: 111 x 56.2 cm (43 11/16 x 22 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Collection of George Gund III 2015.467

title:				Chinese Literatus in an Autumn Landscape
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creation date:			late 1400s
creation date earliest:		1475
creation date latest:		1499
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creditline:			Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
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culture:	Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Josui Sōen (Japanese, active c. 1489–1500)  - artist

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measurements: Mounted: 111 x 56.2 cm (43 11/16 x 22 1/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed: "Sō'en"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III
	opening date:   2017-05-21T04:00:00
	<i>Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 21-September 3, 2017).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III" (May 21- September 3 2017)

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PROVENANCE

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wall description:
In this painting, Sesshū Tōyō’s disciple Sōen depicts a Chinese scholar-official astride a donkey with his attendant behind. Framing their passage on the right side of the scene are two bare willows, and on the left, geese in flight, the cries of which capture the pair’s attention. These elements suggest that the season is late autumn. Sōen, who famously received Sesshū’s 1495 Splashed-ink Landscape as a certificate of his success as a pupil, studied with the master in Suō, presentday Yamaguchi, after which he returned to his native province in the Kanto region.
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IMAGES

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