Description
This painting and CMA 2015.589 belong to a group that was likely mounted as a pair of four-panel folding screens focusing on the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme centered on an area in southern China. This one represents the motif “Sunset Glow Over a Fishing Village.” Both emulate the style of Chinese painter Li Tang (about 1050–after 1130). Some scholars believe the paintings are the work of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), the only Japanese painter of his day to have traveled to China.
Provenance
Daté Family Collection; George Gund III [1937–2013], bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?–2015); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2015–)
Accession Number
2015.590
Medium
Hanging scroll from a set of eight; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Painting: 143.7 x 72.5 cm (56 9/16 x 28 9/16 in.); Mounted: 250.8 x 90.1 cm (98 3/4 x 35 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift from the Collection of George Gund III