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Seventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong
Matsumura GoshunLinkedCulture matchlcp-72453c890cdf
- Date
- 1785
- Medium
- Eight-panel folding screen; ink with gold and silver foil on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150074
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The low height of this folding screen suggests its use as a partition in a small tearoom. An inscription identifies the scene as the 72-peak Heng mountain range in Hunan, China, associated with Buddhist and Daoist traditions and celebrated in poetry. Special mention in the inscription is made of Mount Furong, one of the peaks in the range. Matsumura Goshun may have drawn inspiration from his teacher, Yosa Buson (与謝蕪村) (1716–1783), whose final work depicted the same mountain range. By painting on silver and gold foil, Matsumura Goshun created an alluring surface and deep space in this surprisingly spare vista.
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- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Provenance
- ?~1980: (Établissement des Beaux-Arts du Monde, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1980~: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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