Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters

Mei Qing1690

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Title: Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters
Creator: Mei Qing (Chinese, 1623-1697)
Date Created: 1690
Physical Dimensions: Overall: 28.6 x 44 cm (11 1/4 x 17 5/16 in.)
Provenance: Richard B. Hobart, Cambridge, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Type: Painting
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.157.4
Medium: album leaf: ink and color on paper
Original Title: 倣古山水圖冊
Inscriptions: Summer Leaf III (formerly Leaf D). Artist's inscription, signature, and seals: [seal] Sanmei you. Massive in size, its trunk is truly grand,/ Luxuriant in foliage, its color never fades./ Standing along and still growing upwards,/ The trunk intends to be beside the clouds. Mei Qing of Qushan [painted] and inscribed in imitation of old Shih-t'ien's [Shen Zhou] brush idea in the gengwu year [1690], summer, the sixth month. [2 seals] Quxing, Qing; Yuangong. [2 seals, lower right corner] Huasong; Bo jian shan kou ren jia.
Fun Fact: The inscription dates this album to summer 1690, shortly after Mei Qing's second trip to Huangshan 黃山 (Mt. Huang or Yellow Mountain).
Department: Chinese Art
Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
Collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
Accession Number: 1962.157.4

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