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Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat: In Picture and in Words
Xiang Shengmo1648
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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- Title: Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat: In Picture and in Words
- Creator: Xiang Shengmo (Chinese, 1597-1658)
- Date Created: 1648
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 30.5 x 273 cm (12 x 107 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Tang Zuomei 唐作梅 [late 1700s–1800s], Zhang Baixi 張百熙 [1847–1907], Zhang Heng 張珩 [1915–1963], (C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.42
- Medium: handscroll, ink on paper
- Original Title: 巖栖思訪圖詠
- Inscriptions: Artist's title and 3 seals (in front of painting): [title] Meditative Visit to a Mountain Retreat: In Picture and in Words 巖栖思訪圖詠 [3 seals] Tian lai ge zhong wen sun 天籟閣中文孫; Xiang shi kong zhang zui xin han mo 項氏孔彰醉心翰墨; Qing fu yuan zhong di yi miao ye 清福緣中第一妙業., [印] 兔烏叟; 考古正今. 觀斯人兮何逍遙，非逍遙兮思其友。 思其友兮天一方，欲一訪之難回首。 松耶柏耶稱後凋，巖穴霏微何二酉。 山兮水兮人悠悠，遠莫致之神交否？ 河關一向望不及，言笑于今更非偶。 問游魚兮樂何深？問飛鳥兮歸何藪？ 問猿鶴兮何親疎？問鹿豕兮何夭壽？ 問白雲兮從何來？問流泉兮向何走？ 問漁樵兮何江山？問草木兮何畝畎？ 問春秋兮何炎涼？問世人兮何長久？ 問日月兮何晦明？曾見當時烏兔叟？ 戊子嘉平之初偶作此圖并題。 胥樵項聖謩識。 [印] 兔烏叟; 項氏孔彰; 未喪斯文., 13 additional seals: 4 of Tang Zuomei 唐作梅 (late 18th–19th century); 3 of Zhang Baixi 張百熙 (1847–1907); 4 of Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1963); 2 unidentified.
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Handscroll
- Accession Number: 1962.42
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