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 1962.157.8 This leaf presents a rising promontory in the near distance, whose base is hidden by a dense grove of barren, autumnal trees. A gentle incline emerges from the lower right, with a small path leading to its summit, where a gentleman is sheltered from the wind by two pines. This promontory resembles Guangming Ding 光明頂 (Summit of the Bright and Luminous), the second tallest peak in Huangshan 黃山 (Mt. Huang or Yellow Mountain), the scenic area that inspired much of Mei Qing’s artistic production. Instead of looking down on the “Sea of Clouds,” though, as one who scales Huangshan’s peak would, this gentleman is looking out at two boats on an actual sea.
- 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: Autumn Leaf III (formerly Leaf H). Artist's inscription, signature, and seal: Imitating Fan Kuan's "Sailing on the Autumn River." Qushan laoren [2 seals] Mei; Qushan [seal, lower right corner] Bo jian shan kou ren jia.
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1962.157.8
- 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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