Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009852Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm
by Xie Shichen
About the Artwork
This scroll depicts a wind- and rainswept landscape with figures in the countryside struggling against a late summer monsoon rainstorm. Such weather was familiar to residents of the lower Yangzi delta. Xie Shichen spent most of his life in the Suzhou area. Details of his career are scant, but his surviving works suggest that he made his living as a professional painter. This painting conveys drama and anecdotal observations, characteristic of Zhe school paintings, such as the one by Lü Wenying, CMA 1970.76.
Inscriptions
風雨歸村圖 嘉靖庚寅秋日樗仙謝時臣. [印] 謝時臣印; 3 additional seals unidentified.
Provenance
Dr. H. Müller, Peking [Beijing], China ?–1975: (Tseng Hsien-chi [1919–2000], Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1975–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-March 7, 1976). The Paintings of Hsieh Shih-ch'en. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (organizer) (January 11-February 26, 1978). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). 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
- Xie Shichen (Chinese, 1487–after 1567)
- Date
- 1530
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and light color on silk
- Dimensions
- Overall: 40.3 x 425.4 cm (15 7/8 x 167 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1975.94
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