Old Pine Tree

Cleveland Museum of Art

Old Pine Tree

Wen ZhengmingLinkedCulture matchlcp-528b22266f21

Date
late 1530s
Medium
handscroll; ink on paper
Culture
China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Department
Chinese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
141186

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Here the natural appearance of a gnarled and vine-entangled pine has been transformed into a rhythmic abstraction of brushstrokes and ink tonalities, with unifying opposites—opening and closing, rising and falling—that provide the design across the horizontal scroll. The artist's inscription reads: "The force of change beyond restraint; / The dragon's whiskers are likened to a forest of spears."

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Credit line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Provenance
Qian Shisheng 錢士昇 [1575–1652] | at least by 1736–c. 1911: Qing imperial collection (seals of Emperors Qianlong, r. 1736–1795; Jiaqing, r. 1796–1820; and Xuanzong, r. 1909–11) | ?–1964: (Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1964–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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