Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters
1690
Mei Qing
Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623–1697)
Chinese Art
Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters, 1690. Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623–1697). Album leaf: ink and color on paper; overall: 28.6 x 44 cm (11 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1962.157.4 The inscription dates this album to summer 1690, shortly after Mei Qing's second trip to Huangshan 黃山 (Mt. Huang or Yellow Mountain).
- Maker/Artist
- Mei Qing
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- album leaf: ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 28.6 x 44 cm (11 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Summer Leaf III (formerly Leaf D). Artist's inscription, signature, and seals: [seal] Sanmei you. Massive in size, its trunk is truly grand,/ Luxuriant in foliage, its color never fades./ Standing along and still growing upwards,/ The trunk intends to be beside the clouds. Mei Qing of Qushan [painted] and inscribed in imitation of old Shih-t'ien's [Shen Zhou] brush idea in the gengwu year [1690], summer, the sixth month. [2 seals] Quxing, Qing; Yuangong. [2 seals, lower right corner] Huasong; Bo jian shan kou ren jia.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1962.157.4
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei, Year in Review - 1962, Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting, The Colors of Ink, <em>Chinese Landscape Painting.</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954)., <em>Fifteen Chinese Paintings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA (1964)., <em>Juxtapositions</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965)., <em>Fantastics and Eccentrics</em>. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY, (March 23-May 28, 1967); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (June 20-August 13, 1967); and M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (September 15-November 5, 1967)., <em>Conference on Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations</em>. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (1974)., <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</em>. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982)., <em>Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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