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 1962.157.1 Mei Qing produced a surge of new paintings after his 1690 tour of Huangshan’s breathtaking peaks.
- 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: Spring Leaf I (formerly Leaf A). Artist's inscription, signature, and seals: [seal] Sanmei you. Prunus blossoms from a thousand trees and an old hut-/ The painting seems filled with their fragrance for a distance of ten miles./ In the wintry mountains I sit alone without company;/ Having just finished a new poem, I think I'll taste some wine. Imitating Li Yingqiu's [Li Cheng] "Prunus-Blossom Study." Qushan [painted] and inscribed. [2 seals] Mei; Qushan [seal, lower left corner] Quxing hsien-i.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1962.157.1
- 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, Conference of Oriental-Western Literary and Cultural Relations, <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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