Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

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–)

Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Sesshū Tōyō

1460s–1550s

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

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift from the Collection of George Gund III