Mei Qing, Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters
Severance Fund, 1962.157.8 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Mei Qing

Landscapes in Various Styles after Old Masters

1690

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
album leaf: ink and color on paper
Dimensions
28.6 × 44 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-113987

This leaf presents a rising promontory in the near distance, whose base is hidden by a dense grove of barren, autumnal trees. A gentle incline emerges from the lower right, with a small path leading to its summit, where a gentleman is sheltered from the wind by two pines. This promontory resembles Guangming Ding 光明頂 (Summit of the Bright and Luminous), the second tallest peak in Huangshan 黃山 (Mt. Huang or Yellow Mountain), the scenic area that inspired much of Mei Qing’s artistic production. Instead of looking down on the “Sea of Clouds,” though, as one who scales Huangshan’s peak would, this…

Provenance

Severance Fund, 1962.157.8

Registry history

  • 1690 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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