Snow Coloring the World White

1690

Fa Ruozhen

Fa Ruozhen (Chinese, 1613–1696)

Chinese Art

Snow Coloring the World White, 1690. Fa Ruozhen (Chinese, 1613–1696). Handscroll, ink on paper; image: 29.3 x 297.2 cm (11 9/16 x 117 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1979.76

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Fa Ruozhen
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: handscroll, ink on paper
Medium: handscroll, ink, paper
Dimensions: Image: 29.3 x 297.2 cm (11 9/16 x 117 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: Artist's title on frontispiece, colophon with 6 poems, and 7 seals: [seal] Ch'ien-k'un i ts'ao t'ing. Snow Coloring the World White. Huang-shan lao-jen, Jo-chen, at the age of seventy eight. [2 seals] Fa yin Jo-chen; Huang-shih shih. (Artist's poems are not translated.) In the first month of the keng-wu year [1690], 1 was seventy-eight years old. On a snowy day I was pleased to have my good son-in-law Ch'eng-ssu and other gentlemen visiting me at my Tz'u-ching Hall at Yellow Hill. I did this snowscape to record the event. [2 seals] Fa Jo-chen; Tun Chai. [2 seals at end of painting] Fa yin Jo-chen; Huang-shih shih. trans. LYSL/WKH 12 additional seals: 8 of Ho Kuan-wu (20th c.); 1 of Wang Nan-p'ing (20th c.); 3 unidentified.
Departments: Chinese Art
Accession Number: 1979.76
Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
Exhibitions: Year in Review: 1979, Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia, Chinese Gallery 240a Rotation – August 2016, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, cat. no. 234, p. 316-317.
Rights Statement: CC0