Landscape

1775

Zhai Dakun

Zhai Dakun (Chinese, d. 1804)

Chinese Art

Landscape, 1775. Zhai Dakun (Chinese, d. 1804). Album leaf: ink and color on silk; overall: 41.2 x 31.5 cm (16 1/4 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1986.49.1

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Zhai Dakun
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: album leaf: ink and color on silk
Medium: album, leaf, ink, color, silk
Dimensions: Overall: 41.2 x 31.5 cm (16 1/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: Folded hills and layered peaks curve back and forth, Among them is a ravine removed from the world or men. There a recluse mediates, intent on "forgetting forms," Often he faces the dark cliffs where he has built a thatched hut. Below the pavilion, the flowing stream is as lustrous as jade. With an invited friend one spends the entire day in intimate conversation, Treating Heaven and Earth as nothing more than a speck. Yunping Zhai Dakun Seals: 1) r/i "Dakun" 2) r/r "Zihou"