Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 9 (early 1650s): Art, History and Details

Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 9 (early 1650s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616–after 1694).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Leaf 9 Zhou Yi's colophon reads: Ancient trees share the slanting rays of the setting sun. Chilly ravens hover round their branches. The leader of the flock thinks this a good place to rest, Evening being the time for returning. This flock is the so-called filial crow, Who, in disgorging their own food [to feed the young], have compassionate hearts. Were the people in the world all like this, Fine talent would be everywhere.

Object facts

• Title: Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 9
• Date: early 1650s
• Creator attribution: Fan Qi (Chinese, 1616–after 1694)
• Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: album leaf, ink and color on silk
• Dimensions: Image: 12.6 x 17.3 cm (4 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Overall: 21 x 22 cm (8 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1975.22.9

A detail from the museum

The winter landscape turns ocher at dusk, and the birds roost for the night.

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 63, no. 2, 1976, pp. 31–71.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
• Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.

View the collection record

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