Xie Shichen, Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm
Marlatt Fund, 1975.94 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Xie Shichen

Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm

1530

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
Handscroll; ink and light color on silk
Dimensions
40.3 × 425.4 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-113226

This scroll depicts a wind- and rainswept landscape with figures in the countryside struggling against a late summer monsoon rainstorm. Such weather was familiar to residents of the lower Yangzi delta. Xie Shichen spent most of his life in the Suzhou area. Details of his career are scant, but his surviving works suggest that he made his living as a professional painter. This painting conveys drama and anecdotal observations, characteristic of Zhe school paintings, such as the one by Lü Wenying, CMA 1970.76.

Provenance

Marlatt Fund, 1975.94

Registry history

  • 1530 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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