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Looking for a Monastery in the Misty Mountains
by Chen Chun 陳淳
Inscriptions
Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: Row after row of misty trees envelop the Buddhist Monastery. But the rustic who comes to find it will not lose his way. Just across the wooden bridge, the dusty world is cut off; Among the countless falling petals, birds are singing confusedly. Daofu 道複 composed [this]. [seals] Fufu shi 復甫; Baiyang shanren 白陽山人. (translation by Wai-Kam Ho and Ling-yün (Nora) Shih Liu); 3 additional unidentified seals.; 1 additional unidentified seal on the back of the mounting.
Provenance
?–1979: (James J. Freeman, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1979–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 2-December 13, 1987). Chinese Buddhist Art Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2021-May 8, 2022).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Chen Chun (Chinese, 1483–1544)
- Date
- 1500–1544
- Medium
- hanging scroll, ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 158 x 63.5 cm (62 3/16 x 25 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1979.28
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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-00010255
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