Writing Books under the Pine Trees
c. 1308–85
Wang Meng
Wang Meng (Chinese, c. 1308–1385)
Chinese Art
Writing Books under the Pine Trees, c. 1308–85. Wang Meng (Chinese, c. 1308–1385). Album leaf; image: 66.7 x 70.5 cm (26 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.94
- Maker/Artist
- Wang Meng
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Album leaf
- Dimensions
- Image: 66.7 x 70.5 cm (26 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: Many years and months passed by the locked gate Behind which the scholar has been immersed in writing his books; While the pine trees he had planted Have all grown up with old dragon scales. The Yellow Crane Mountain Woodcutter [Huang-ho-shan-ch'iao] painted this for Chen-su [the h. of Ts'ao Chih-pol. [seal] Wang Meng yin. 2 additional seals: 1 of Ts'ao Chih-po (1271-1355); 1 unidentified.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1997.94
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
- Exhibitions
- Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968: Lee and Ho, Yüan, cat. no. 257.<br>Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 111, pp. 136-137.<br>Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997: The Fragrance of Ink: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. A. Dean Perry, April 19-August 3, 1997.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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