Chinese Landscape
1500s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Chinese Landscape, 1500s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Pair of six-fold screens; ink and slight color on paper; image: 155.5 x 357.8 cm (61 1/4 x 140 7/8 in.); overall: 171.5 x 373.4 cm (67 1/2 x 147 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.279 In a panorama of mountains and expanses of water, three gentlemen have assembled by moonlight to enjoy one another’s company away from a bustling village. An influx of ink paintings from China in both album and scroll formats beginning in the late 1200s inspired Japanese artists to create landscapes based upon Chinese prototypes. Later, Japanese painters adapted the imagery to the larger format of folding screens, which were used to define spaces in large rooms.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Pair of six-fold screens; ink and slight color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 155.5 x 357.8 cm (61 1/4 x 140 7/8 in.); Overall: 171.5 x 373.4 cm (67 1/2 x 147 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1964.279
- Credit Line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections, The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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