Cleveland Museum of Art
Clouds Visiting a Mountain Retreat
Tao HongLinkedCulture matchlcp-20d8a2a9eb1c
- Date
- 1633
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Culture
- China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 145987
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Little is known about Tao Hong who settled in Nanking in the latter part of his life. His son was a friend of the leading Nanjing school artist Gong Xian (on display nearby). When the Ming dynasty collapsed in 1644, Tao joined the loyalist resistance in Yunnan province. By 1645 the Manchu invaders had defeated the Yunnanese forces, prompting Tao to flee to Burma, where he died shortly thereafter. Only five of Tao Hong’s works are known to exist, of which this painting is the largest.
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- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1971: (Hsien-chi Tseng 曾憲七 [1919–2000], Boston, MA and New Hampshire, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1971–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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