Cloudy Woods, Summer Chill Artist, attributed to: Mi Youren (Chinese, 1086–1165)

14th century

Asian Art

Not on view
Medium

Hand scroll, ink on paper

Dimensions

without mounting: 8 13/16 in. (22.4 cm)
without mounting (Painting): 7 3/16 × 28 3/8 in. (18.3 × 72.1 cm)
without mounting (Frontispiece:): 7 1/4 × 27 7/8 in. (18.4 × 70.8 cm)
without mounting (1st Colophon): 7 3/16 × 42 3/16 in. (18.3 × 107.2 cm)
without mounting (2nd Colophon): 7 3/16 × 53 1/4 in. (18.3 × 135.3 cm)

Credit Line

Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore

Accession Number

1953.27.7

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) or Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Pien Yung-yu [Bian Yongyu], 17th century; Lu Hsin-yuan [Lu Xinyuan], 19th century; Ching Wei-hsien [Jing Weixian], 20th century; Ton-ying, New York, 1922
Bibliography
  • Xinyuan Lu, Yi gu tang ti ba, 16 vols. (Beijing: Beijing Ai ru sheng shu zi hua ji shu yan jiu zhong xin, 2009), 10, vol. 15
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 50, no. 76, ill
  • Louise Wallace Hackney and Chang-foo Yau, A Study of Chinese Paintings in the Collection of Ada Small Moore (London: Oxford University Press, 1940), no. 12
  • Yongyu Bian, Shi gu tang shu hua hui kao, 80 vols. (Shanghai: Jian gu shu she, 1921), 55–56, vol. 13
  • Xinyuan Lu, Rang li guan guo yan lu, 10 vols. (Wuxing, China: Lu shi, 1891), 25–26, vol. 2
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

Nature, handscrolls

Subject

clouds summer woods

Inscriptions

Trans. Hackney and Yau, p. 46; another trans. of the Tsung Hsia poem is given by A.G. Wenley in a review of the Moore volume in Journal of the American Oriental Society, pp. 297-298

Signed

by Yuan and Ming authorities

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