Landscape Album in Various Styles: Boating in Spring Water
1684
Zha Shibiao
Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698)
Chinese Art
Landscape Album in Various Styles: Boating in Spring Water, 1684. Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698). Album leaf, ink and light color on paper; overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1955.37.3
- Maker/Artist
- Zha Shibiao
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- album leaf, ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: "Boating in spring water is like sailing in the sky" [from a poem by Lu Yu, 1125-1210]. While painting this, I thought of the quotation and thus recorded it. The third month of the jiazi year [1684]. Shibiao [seal] Erzhan. [seal, upper right] Shibiao.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1955.37.3
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
- Exhibitions
- <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954)., <em>The Colors of Ink</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 9-May 12, 1974)., <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>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4-July 23, 2003). 1955.37.3 only
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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