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Mountains of the Immortals
Chen RuyanLinkedCulture matchlcp-09154cfb650d
- Date
- 1300–1370
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 160137
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The landscape in deep green tones offers a view into a secluded mountain valley, populated by ancient figures surrounded by deer and cranes, all under high pine trees. A red-robed immortal in the air steers his crane toward the paradise land. This idyllic scene was presumably created amid the tumultuous transition from the Yuan to the Ming dynasty. Chen from Suzhou supported major rebel leaders, first Zhang Shicheng (1321–1367) with his base in Suzhou and then his rival Zhu Yuanzhang in Nanjing, after the latter had established the Ming dynasty. Chen was executed in 1371. Such blue and green landscapes often evoke nostalgia for the idealized ancient times.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
- Provenance
- Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 [1525–1590] | Liang Qingbiao 梁清標 [1620–1691] | ?–1997: Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1997–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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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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