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Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm
Xie ShichenLinkedCulture matchlcp-ea89e764aeee
- Date
- 1530
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and light color on silk
- Culture
- China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148383
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This scroll depicts a wind- and rainswept landscape with figures in the countryside struggling against a late summer monsoon rainstorm. Such weather was familiar to residents of the lower Yangzi delta. Xie Shichen spent most of his life in the Suzhou area. Details of his career are scant, but his surviving works suggest that he made his living as a professional painter. This painting conveys drama and anecdotal observations, characteristic of Zhe school paintings, such as the one by Lü Wenying, CMA 1970.76 .
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Provenance
- Dr. H. Müller, Peking [Beijing], China | ?–1975: (Tseng Hsien-chi [1919–2000], Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1975–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
Chinese landscape paintingsThese are predominantly Chinese paintings from the Ming, Qing, Yuan, and Song dynasties that depict natural landscape scenes including mountains, rivers, forests, and human settlements using traditional media such as ink
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