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Baoyang Lake

Song XuLinkedCulture matchlcp-73425a1d2261

Date: c. 1588
Medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk
Culture: China, Jiaxing, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department: Chinese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 160729

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This album of landscape paintings depicts the famous scenic areas located in and around the city of Wuxing in southeastern China. These places were all known for their natural beauty, but in addition, a number were distinguished by their links to eminent historical figures and events. The artist, Song Xu, was not a native of Wuxing, but must have visited it when he accepted the commission, for he carefully depicted all eighteen views and wrote comments on each of them. Song's gazetteer-like notation on this leaf reads: Baoyang Lake: Several li (Chinese mile) from here to the east, one can exit through Lake Tai, which is quite near. Just a few li to the north is the township of Xiangshan. Having arrived there, one may want to cross over the border to the city of Yixing.

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Credit line: The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Provenance: ?–1998: (Kaikodo America Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1998–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH