Cleveland Museum of Art
Listening to the Sound of Autumn in a Misty Grove
Zhang FengLinkedCulture matchlcp-da5f7d1ef20d
- Date
- 1657
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 149031
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Zhang Feng from Nanjing passed the local government examinations shortly before the fall of the Ming dynasty. With the Manchu conquest, he joined the ranks of loyalists who refused to serve the new regime. He chose the intermittently frugal life of a Buddhist adept. Many of his paintings lament the loss of the empire. In this scroll, he depicts a lone figure in a stark landscape of frosty atmosphere enshrouded in mists. Close looking reveals red strokes that color the grounds, a way of expressing his loyalty to the Ming whose family name Zhu means red .
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1977: (James J. Freeman, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1977–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
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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