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Reminiscences of Qinhuai River
Shitao1642-1707
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Shitao’s skillfully rendered composition suggests a sweeping movement from the base of the central rising mass, silhouette of forest, and a bright bend of misty atmosphere under the distant hills, to form almost a continual circle of energy—a gentle vortex. That is a perfect embodiment of the early Qing ideal of a momentous flow, with suggestion of the subterranean veins and linkages.
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- Title: Reminiscences of Qinhuai River
- Creator: Shitao (Chinese, 1642-1707)
- Date Created: 1642-1707
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 25.5 x 20.2 cm (10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Overall: 33 x 24.3 cm (13 x 9 9/16 in.)
- Provenance: Qin Tongli 秦通理 [early 20th century], 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/1966.31.7
- Medium: album leaf, ink and color on Song paper
- Original Title: 秦淮憶舊圖冊
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
- Accession Number: 1966.31.7
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