Landscape
1767
Kan Tenju
Kan Tenju (Japanese, 1727–1795)
Japanese Art
Landscape, 1767. Kan Tenju (Japanese, 1727–1795). Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper; painting only: 133.2 x 45.2 cm (52 7/16 x 17 13/16 in.); including mounting: 216 x 67.7 cm (85 1/16 x 26 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1978.7 This painting combines image and calligraphy, connected by skillful brushwork.
- Maker/Artist
- Kan Tenju
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 133.2 x 45.2 cm (52 7/16 x 17 13/16 in.); Including mounting: 216 x 67.7 cm (85 1/16 x 26 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: artist's inscription with poem, date, signature and seals, upper right. Inscription: 雨過嵐光煙／雲陽樹影諫／夕陽独在左／？卷讀残書 Translation: Smoky mist in the mountain, reflects light after the rain/Sunlight passes through the clouds to cast shadows of the trees/Alone in the sunset/I read a well-worn book. (tr. Tianchu Gao)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1978.7
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1978, Visions of Landscape: East and West, Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting, Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia, Scholar's Studio, Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan, Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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