Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00010217Landscape Album in Various Styles: Boating in Spring Water
by Zha Shibiao
Also known as: Album of Seasonal Landscapes 四季山水圖冊
Inscriptions
Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: "Boating in spring water is like sailing in the sky" [from a poem by Lu Yu, 1125-1210]. While painting this, I thought of the quotation and thus recorded it. The third month of the jiazi year [1684]. Shibiao [seal] Erzhan. [seal, upper right] Shibiao.
Provenance
Ma Yueguan 馬曰琯 [1688–1755] Ding Huikang 丁惠康 [1868/1869–about 1918] and Gu Anmi 顧安宓 ?-1955: (C. T. Loo & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1955-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698)
- Date
- 1684
- Medium
- album leaf, ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
- Accession no.
- 1955.37.3
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