Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains

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Buddhist Retreat by Stream and Mountains

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Date
960–85
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
Culture
China, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Department
Chinese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
135836

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Monk Juran served the Southern Tang (937–75) imperial house in Nanjing, where he studied with Dong Yuan (active 930s–60s). Both founded the southern landscape tradition, or Jiangnan school, known for gentle misty riverscapes in wet ink. Juran moved north to Kaifeng when the Southern Tang surrendered to the Northern Song, the impact of which may be seen in this painting, presumably painted after 976. A towering mountain dominates the composition, typically representing the style of the Northern Song academy; while the use of long hemp fiber strokes to texture the mountains, wet dots, and round boulders on mountain tops are elements of the southern landscape tradition. This hanging scroll with the towering mountain is a prime example of the monumental landscape style of Northern Song.

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Credit line
Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer
Provenance
960-1279: Song government (Shang Shu Sheng yin 尚書省印), Beijing, China | 1368–98: Ming government (half-seal Si yin 司印), Beijing, China | first half of 1600s: Wu Ting 吳廷 (first half of 1600s) | 1620–1691: Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691] | 1640–86: Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 [1640–1686] | c. 1683–c. 1744: An Qi 安岐 [c. 1683–c. 1744] | 1736–95: Qing imperial collection (seals of the Qianlong Emperor), Beijing. China | early 1900s: Shao Fu-hsing, Beijing, China | ?–1959: Frank F. Cho, New York, NY | ?–1959: Katharine Holden Thayer [1898–1985], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1959–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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