Description
This painting was part of a set of album leaves representing the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme originating in Chinese poetry and painting that spread to both Korea and Japan. Southern China’s Xiao-Xiang area, where the mist-covered banks of the Xiang River created a complex landscape shifting like the moods and minds of people, captured the imaginations of generations of painters and calligraphers. Inscriptions on these works suggest that they were possibly ordered by newly prominent Japanese Confucian scholars.
Provenance
(Katsuhiro Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?-1980); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1980-)
Accession Number
1980.188.3
Medium
album leaf remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.5 x 49 cm (11 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.); Overall: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
