Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape with Flying Geese
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- Date
- mid-1200s
- Medium
- Album leaf; ink and slight color on silk
- Culture
- China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 129861
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This minimalist landscape places most of the representational elements in the lower right foreground. A lone gentleman strolls along a zigzagging path by the water. With the gentleman’s staff acting as a visual cue, the viewer’s gaze is directed to geese flying over distant mountains. The scene of a marshland, with its wet and soft ground dotted with vegetation, suggests springtime in Jiangnan. Combined with the flying geese, the album evokes the poetic lines: By spring fields, geese are about to return, Under chilly waters, fish are submerging. 春郊欲回雁, 寒水正沉鱼
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1952: (Dr. Vladimir G. Simkhovitch [1874–1959], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1952–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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