Cleveland Museum of Art
The Mountain of Five Cataracts
Chen HongshouLinkedCulture matchlcp-ddbe17606f70
- Date
- c. 1630
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Culture
- China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 142641
What the image shows
A detailed Chinese landscape painting featuring dense forested areas, rocky cliffs, and a winding river.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
A unique landscape painting in the existing body of Chen Hongshou’s art, this painting reveals his involvement with the practice of fang (imitation) to achieve creative transformation. Chen acquired the tradition stemming from Dong Yuan of the Five Dynasties, with which he sought an artistic individuality that lends his work an idiosyncratic vision and extraordinary power.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- Gao Shiqi 高士奇 [1644–1703] | Guan Mianjun 關冕鈞 [1870–1933] | ?–1966: (Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1966–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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