Looking for a Monastery in the Misty Mountains

Chen Chun1500–1544

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Title: Looking for a Monastery in the Misty Mountains
Creator: Chen Chun (Chinese, 1483–1544)
Date Created: 1500–1544
Physical Dimensions: Overall: 158 x 63.5 cm (62 3/16 x 25 in.)
Provenance: (James J. Freeman, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Type: Painting
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.28
Medium: hanging scroll, ink on paper
Original Title: 霧山尋隱
Inscriptions: Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: Row after row of misty trees envelop the Buddhist Monastery./ But the rustic who comes to find it will not lose his way./ Just across the wooden bridge, the dusty world is cut off;/ Among the countless falling petals, birds are singing confusedly. Daofu 道複 composed [this]. [seals] Fufu shi 復甫; Baiyang shanren 白陽山人. trans. WKH/LYSL, 3 additional unidentified seals., 1 additional unidentified seal on the back of the mounting.
Department: Chinese Art
Culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Accession Number: 1979.28

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