Landscape Album in Various Styles: Landscape after Mi Fei

Description

Zha Shibiao, a native of Anhui province, moved to Yangzhou later in his career, like so many of his fellow countrymen. At age 68, he painted this album with seasonal landscapes in various styles. Painted in fresh colors and wet strokes, all depict typical scenes of Jiangnan, the Yangzi delta: a herdboy on a buffalo wading through water, boating on the stream to the Peach Blossom Spring at Wulin, a waterfront town shrouded in mist, a scholar on his donkey enjoying the red autumn leaves, and drinking tea on a boat while watching migrating birds.

Provenance

Ma Yueguan 馬曰琯 [1688–1755]; Ding Huikang 丁惠康 [1868/1869–about 1918] and Gu Anmi 顧安宓; (C. T. Loo & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1955); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1955-)

Landscape Album in Various Styles: Landscape after Mi Fei

Zha Shibiao

1684

Accession Number

1955.37.8

Medium

album leaf, ink and light color on paper

Dimensions

Overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin