Clouds Rising above Mountains and Streams Artist: Chen Danzhong (jinshi 1643) (Chinese)

ca 1625–1675

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Album leaf; ink on paper; framed and glazed

Dimensions

without mounting: 9 3/4 × 12 11/16 in. (24.8 × 32.2 cm)
framed: 15 5/16 × 18 3/16 in. (38.89 × 46.2 cm)

Credit Line

Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation

Accession Number

2015.107.5

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Ming dynasty (1368–1644) or Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Wang Jiqian (C. C. Wang 1907–2003); Mi Chou Gallery, New York; sold to Mary Griggs Burke (1916–2012), New York; bequeathed to the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, New York, 2012; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2015
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2016), 16
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Marks

Seal of Chen Danzong (Chen Danzhong yin) (square, intaglio)\r\nLianggong (rectangular, relief) [Zhou Lianggong, 1612-1672]

Inscriptions

This closely resembles Administrator Beiyuan's [Dong Yuan, d. 967] Clouds Rising above Mountains and Streams. Hongshou [Chen Hongshou, 1598-1652]

Signed

On a spring day, Yuan weng [Zhou Lianggong] of Hansheng [Yangzhou] , the esteemed official, our fathers being of the same year in the examinations, took out twelve sheets of paper requesting paintings. Master Po [Su Shi] said: "My poem on Miaogao [tai] was composed fullfilling a rquest." I know that my paintings are not worthy of even being in a commonplace album. Your younger subordinate Chen Danzhong

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