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Reminiscences of Qinhuai River

Shitao1642-1707

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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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