Cleveland Museum of Art
Cloudy Mountains
Mi YourenLinkedCulture matchlcp-9413750ad9a8
- Date
- 1130
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 113945
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Cloudy Mountains captures the view of a lush and misty riverscape, an impression of Mi Youren’s new environment, painted in a moment of peace. With the fall of the Northern Song dynasty in 1127 upon the Jurchen’s military invasion, Mi Youren fled south across the Yangzi River. In 1130, he had reached Xinchang in Zhejiang province and thanked his host with this painting for having given him shelter. Mi Youren was the oldest son of the art critic Mi Fu (1051– 1107); both developed a distinct style of mountain scenery by accumulating wet ink dots that create a hazy atmosphere. This scroll is one of the museum’s earliest dated Chinese paintings.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- Zigu 子榖 [mid-1600s] | Xisan 錫三 of Yang xing zhai 養性齋 [likely 1800s] | Li Zaixian 李在銛 [early 1900s] | Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 [1866–1940] | Yamamoto Teijiro 山本悌二郞 [1870–1937], Tokyo, Japan | ?–1933: (Yamanaka and Company, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1933–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Chinese landscape paintingsThese are predominantly Chinese paintings from the Ming, Qing, Yuan, and Song dynasties that depict natural landscape scenes including mountains, rivers, forests, and human settlements using traditional media such as ink
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