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Mountain Village Embraced by the Summer
by Wang Shimin
Inscriptions
Artist's inscription, signature, and 3 seals: [seal] Ouxie 偶諧. In the jihai year [1659], the fourth lunar month, I painted this for T'o-weng, my senior in our literary club, for your amusement and correction. Your junior Wang Shimin. [seals] Wang Shimin yin 王時敏印; Xunzhi 遜之.; 2 additional seals: 1 of Jiang Gusun [Chiang Ku-sun] 將穀孫 (20th century); 1 of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907–2003).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Wang Shimin (Chinese, 1592–1680)
- Date
- 1659
- Medium
- hanging scroll, ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 156.2 x 73 cm (61 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
- Accession no.
- 1997.104
Provenance
Jiang Gusun [Chiang Ku-sun] 將穀孫 [1900s] ? before 1980: 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
More by Wang Shimin in museum collections
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-00010398
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