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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Clouds over the River before Rain 溪雲欲雨圖
    Shen Zhou 沈周. Clouds over the River before Rain 溪雲欲雨圖, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1504. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000640

    Clouds over the River before Rain 溪雲欲雨圖

    by Shen Zhou 沈周

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Frontispiece (引首) by Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉: 石田老人溪雲欲雨圖卷 石渠寶笈三編著錄己未春羅振玉謹署題 Seals: 上虞羅氏,振玉印信 Inscription on Painting: 溪雲欲雨圖 弘治甲子仲夏四日長洲沈周画 [Clouds over the river before rain; on the fourth day of the fifth month in the year jiazi of the Hongzhi reign (1504), painted by Shen Zhou]. Artist's Seal:启南, 吳沈氏有竹莊圖書; Collectors' Seal: 嘉慶御覽之寶,石渠寶笈,寶笈三編,嘉慶鑑賞,三希堂精鑑璽,宜子孫. Colophons by Nagao Uzan 長尾 雨山 (1864–1942) and Naitō Konan 内藤 湖南(1866–1934) [see CMA Mi Youren handscroll, 33.220]

    Provenance

    Qing imperial collection (Jiaqing Emperor, r. 1796-1819), Beijing. Luo Zhenyu (1866-1940). Saito Etsuzo (1872-1957), Sumiyoshi Village, Japan. Kozo Harada (1932–2016), Tokyo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 9, 1961.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, Ming-Chʻing Dynasties, a.d. 1368–1644, a.d. 1644–1912, August 7–October 11, 1964.

    Publications

    《明四大家畫譜》 (大阪: 博文堂, 1924), pl. 14–16. 内藤虎次郎, 《董盦蔵書畫譜》 (大阪: 博文堂, 1928), pl. 17:1–10. 福開森 [John C. Ferguson], 《歷代著錄畫目》 (南京: 金陵大學中國文化研究所, 1933), 156. Osvald Sirén, A History of Later Chinese Painting (London: Medici Society, 1938), pl. 60. Richard Edwards, The Field of Stones: A Study of the Art of Shen Chou (1427-1509) (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1962), 67–69, 108, pl. 42–43. “Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums,” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America 16 (1962), 115. Jack Sewell, Ming-Chʻing Dynasties, a.d. 1368–1644, a.d. 1644–1912 (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1964), (14). Stephen Little, “Chinese Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Arts of Asia 29, no. 3 (1999): 52, fig. 8.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Shen Zhou 沈周 (Chinese, 1427-1509)
    Date
    Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1504
    Medium
    Handscroll; ink and color on paper
    Dimensions
    34.8 × 810.3 cm (13 3/4 × 319 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    handscroll
    Style
    Chinese (culture or style)
    Place
    China
    Department
    Arts of Asia
    Credit line
    Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund
    Accession no.
    1961.224

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