Landscape Album in Various Styles: The Stream of Wuling
1684
- Medium
- album leaf, ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- 29.9 × 39.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-112950
At age 68, Zha Shibiao painted this album with seasonal landscapes in various styles. Painted in fresh colors and wet strokes, all depict typical scenes of Jiangnan. The mention of Wuling in the inscription signals the “Peach Blossom Spring,” but Zha Shibiao purposefully left out all the accepted iconography for that story: a lone fisherman, cave entrance, and village of hermits. Instead, two men in separate boats are engaged in conversation. Could they be talking about the way to the Peach Blossom Spring, or could one of them be that fisherman blessed by his unintended visit but no longer ab…
Provenance
Millikin, 1955.37.4
Registry history
- 1684 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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