Landscape (1500s): Art, History and Details

Landscape (1500s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Narihide (Japanese, active 1500s).

The work and its context

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

This composition includes imagery from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. Scanning the composition from top to bottom, at least six of the views are discernible: night rain over Xiao and Xiang, evening bell from a mist-shrouded temple, returning sails off a distant shore, geese descending to a sandbar, mountain village in clearing mist, and sunset glow over a fishing village. Inside the painting’s box is a document with a long inscription by prominent calligrapher, collector, and connoisseur Maeda Kōsetsu (1841–1916) discussing the painting’s subject and the matter of the painter’s biography—he appears to have been a Kano school artist, but his precise identity is unclear.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape
• Date: 1500s
• Creator attribution: Narihide (Japanese, active 1500s)
• Culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: hanging scroll; ink on paper
• Dimensions: Mounted: 167 x 39.9 cm (65 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2015.470

Collection credit

Gift from the Collection of George Gund III

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