Mountain Village Embraced by the Summer

Wang Shimin1659

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Title: Mountain Village Embraced by the Summer
Creator: Wang Shimin (Chinese, 1592-1680)
Date Created: 1659
Physical Dimensions: Image: 156.2 x 73 cm (61 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.)
Provenance: Jiang Gusun [Chiang Ku-sun] 將穀孫 [1900s], C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to Mrs. A. Dean Perry, Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911-1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Type: Painting
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.104
Medium: hanging scroll, ink on paper
Original Title: 夏季山居圖
Inscriptions: Artist's inscription, signature, and 3 seals: [seal] Ouxie 偶諧. In the jihai year [1659], the fourth lunar month, I painted this for T'o-weng, my senior in our literary club, for your amusement and correction. Your junior Wang Shimin. [seals] Wang Shimin yin 王時敏印; Xunzhi 遜之., 2 additional seals: 1 of Jiang Gusun [Chiang Ku-sun] 將穀孫 (20th century); I of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907–2003).
Department: Chinese Art
Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Accession Number: 1997.104

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