Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 5

Description

Fan Qi's painting on the fifth leaf evokes Zuo Si's poetic line: I shake my robe atop the cliff of thousand ren.

The calligraphy by Zhou Yi adjacent to the painting reads:
That stone path surrounded by streams—for whom was it created?
Leaning on my staff, I walk and hum, arriving alone.
As soon as I ascend to gaze at these mountains, my happiness increases,
Every morning the moistening dew makes the green moss slippery.

Provenance

Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1836–1924]; (Robert G. Sawers [b. c. 1934], London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1975); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1975-)

Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 5

Fan Qi

early 1650s

Accession Number

1975.22.5

Medium

album leaf, ink and color on silk

Dimensions

Image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund