Cloudy Mountains

1130

Mi Youren

Mi Youren (Chinese, 1072–1151)

Chinese Art

Cloudy Mountains, 1130. Mi Youren (Chinese, 1072–1151). Handscroll; ink and color on silk; image: 43.7 x 192.6 cm (17 3/16 x 75 13/16 in.); overall: 45.5 x 646.8 cm (17 15/16 x 254 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1933.220 The handscroll’s multicolored silk brocade cover has a title label and a sticker left from when it was lent to the 1935–36 International Exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy in London.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Mi Youren
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Medium: handscroll, ink, color, silk
Dimensions: Image: 43.7 x 192.6 cm (17 3/16 x 75 13/16 in.); Overall: 45.5 x 646.8 cm (17 15/16 x 254 5/8 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: 好山無數接天涯，烟靄陰晴日夕佳。要識先生會到此，故留筆戲在君家。庚戍歲，辟地新昌作。元暉。 [seal] 元暉戲作 Translation: Fine hills are endless toward the edges of heaven. So are mist and cloud, rain and shine, days and nights. Had I known that you’d be visiting here. I would have left this playful work in your home. In the year of gengxu [1130], [I painted this] while seeking refuge in Xinchang. Yuanhui. [seal] “Yuan hui xi zuo” (Yuanhui playfully made this) Inscription: [Seal] 安陽孫氏 Translation: Anyang Sun shi Inscription: [Seal] 畢瀧 Translation: Bi Long Inscription: [Seal] 成親王 Translation: Prince Cheng Inscription: [Seal] 永瑆 Translation: Yungxing (1752–1823) Inscription: [Seal] 錫三 appears twice Translation: Xisan Inscription: [Seal] 養性齋珍藏書畫印 Translation: Yangxing zhai zhen cang shu hua yin (calligraphy and painting in the collection of the Yangxing studio) Inscription: [Seal] 芷陔審定真跡 Translation: "Zhigai shen ding zhen ji” (authenticated by Zhigai [Li Zaixian 李在銛]) Inscription: [Seal] 玉簡齋 Translation: “Yu jian zhai" Yujian Studio Inscription: 2 colophons (1 dated 1650), inscription dated 1647, and 2 seals of Wang To (1592–1652) Inscription: 1 colophon, dated second month of the gengyin year 庚寅 (1650), and 2 seals of Chen Kuang 陳爌 (1646 jinshi degree) Inscription: 7 seals unidentified Inscription: A separate scroll containing six colophons on Cloudy Mountains exists; the inscribers are Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866–1940), Naito Torajiro 內藤虎次郎 (1866–1934), Nagao Ko 長尾甲 (1864–1942), and Wu Changshuo 吳昌碩 (1844–1927). Naito Torajiro alone wrote three colophons.
Departments: Chinese Art
Accession Number: 1933.220
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Exhibitions: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Exhibition of the Month: The Romantic Spirit, Chinese Landscape Painting, Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques, Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Visions of Landscape: East and West, Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection, Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Chinese Painter as Poet, Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Inspired by Chinese Landscape and Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c, To-So-Gen-Min, II. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, Japan (November 24-December 16, 1928)., The International Exhibition of Chinese Art. Royal Academy of Art, London, England (November 1935-March 1936)., Pacific Cultures, China. Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, CA (1939)., Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4-July 22, 2003).
Rights Statement: CC0