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Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat: In Picture and in Words
Also known as: Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat; Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat: In Picture and in Words 巖栖思訪圖詠
Inscriptions
Artist's title and 3 seals (in front of painting): [title] Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat: In Picture and in Words 巖栖思訪圖詠 [3 seals] Tian lai ge zhong wen sun 天籟閣中文孫; Xiang shi kong zhang zui xin han mo 項氏孔彰醉心翰墨; Qing fu yuan zhong di yi miao ye 清福緣中第一妙業.; [印] 兔烏叟; 考古正今. 觀斯人兮何逍遙，非逍遙兮思其友。 思其友兮天一方，欲一訪之難回首。 松耶柏耶稱後凋，巖穴霏微何二酉。 山兮水兮人悠悠，遠莫致之神交否？ 河關一向望不及，言笑于今更非偶。 問游魚兮樂何深？問飛鳥兮歸何藪？ 問猿鶴兮何親疎？問鹿豕兮何夭壽？ 問白雲兮從何來？問流泉兮向何走？ 問漁樵兮何江山？問草木兮何畝畎？ 問春秋兮何炎涼？問世人兮何長久？ 問日月兮何晦明？曾見當時烏兔叟？ 戊子嘉平之初偶作此圖并題。 胥樵項聖謩識。 [印] 兔烏叟; 項氏孔彰; 未喪斯文.; 13 additional seals: 4 of Tang Zuomei 唐作梅 (late 18th–19th century); 3 of Zhang Baixi 張百熙 (1847–1907); 4 of Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1963); 2 unidentified.
Provenance
Tang Zuomei 唐作梅 [late 1700s–1800s] Zhang Baixi 張百熙 [1847–1907] Zhang Heng 張珩 [1915–1963] ?–1962: (C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1962–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959). Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period. University of California, Berkeley. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (organizer) (November 9, 1971-January 2, 1972); Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February 11-April 2, 1972). The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Xiang Shengmo (Chinese, 1597–1658)
- Date
- 1648
- Medium
- handscroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 30.5 x 273 cm (12 x 107 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Accession no.
- 1962.42
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