Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009524Reminiscences of Qinhuai River
by Shitao
Also known as: Reminiscences of the Qinhuai River; Reminiscences of Qinhuai River 秦淮憶舊圖冊
About the Artwork
This album leaf was probably created in 1695 for a friend Shitao had traveled with to visit ancient sites along the Qinhuai River from the Six Dynasties period. A tiny figure in a boat looks up in awe toward rising mountain masses that form an overhanging cliff, perhaps an image for the overwhelming history of Nanjing. Shitao was born two years before the Ming dynasty fell. A descendant of the first Ming emperor, he later lived in Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Anhui province. Despite his affiliation with the Ming imperial family, he met the Qing dynasty Kangxi emperor twice.
Inscriptions
沿溪四十九迴折，搜盡秦淮六代奇。 雪霽東山誰着屐，風高西壑自成詩。 應憐孤冷長無伴，其剩槎牙只幾枝。 滿地落花春未了，酸心如豆耐人思。 仲賓先生以宋紙十幅寄余真州命畫。因憶昔時秦淮探梅聚首之地，寫此就教。清湘石濤濟道人。[印]原濟; 石濤.
Provenance
Qin Tongli 秦通理 [early 20th century] ?–1966: C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1966–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Shitao (Chinese, 1642–1707)
- Date
- 1642–1707
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and color on Song paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 25.5 x 20.2 cm (10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Overall: 33 x 24.3 cm (13 x 9 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1966.31.8
More by Shitao in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00009524
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