Pure Tones among Hills and Waters

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Pure Tones among Hills and Waters

Xiao YuncongLinkedCulture matchlcp-4a60915dd5e3

Date
1664
Medium
Handscroll; ink and light color on paper
Culture
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Department
Chinese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
131672

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Painted at age 68, this landscape is one of Xiao Yuncong’s most mature works. Extraordinary in its combination of fine details with bold brushstrokes and bluish washes, it is also one of his longest compositions in handscroll format, extending over 23 feet. Throughout his lifetime, Xiao visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, where he met with other painters and literati. Regarded as the founder of the Gushu school (姑孰派) of painting, Xiao painted from nature, and his landscapes are informed by his travels, as well as by his experience as a print designer. Biographical notes on Xiao Yuncong relate that he did not pursue the career of an official, but "furnished a cottage in the eastern suburbs [of Wuhu in Anhui province] and amused himself playing the qin (zither) and reading every day."

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Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Provenance
Jiang Xun 江恂 [active about 1753–after 1780] | Xiang Yuan 項源 [active about 1811] | Qi Zhiliu 祁之鏐 [active about 1858] | Yu Zhimeng 俞芷盟 [second half of 19th century] | Wu Changshou 吳昌綬 [1867–1924] | Zhang Yunzhong 張允中 [1881–1960?] | Wang Shaoming 汪兆銘 [Wang Jingwei 汪精衛, 1883–1944] | ?–1954: (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1954–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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