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Shade of Pines in a Cloudy Valley
by Wang Jian
Inscriptions
Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: Painted at Yiyage in imitation of Wang Meng's Shade of Pines in a Cloudy Valley during the Qingming Festival of the gengzi year [1660]. Wang Jian [seal] Wang Jian zhi yin.; 2 additional seals: 1 of Bi Long 畢瀧 (active 1700s); 1 unidentified.
Exhibition history
1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Wang Jian (Chinese, 1598–1677)
- Date
- 1660
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 128.2 x 61 cm (50 1/2 x 24 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
- Accession no.
- 1997.105
Provenance
Bi Long 畢瀧 [1700s] C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to Mrs. A. Dean Perry before 1980–1997: Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1997–: 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.
Open-access museum record · AT-00010252
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