Landscape with Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang (late 1500s–early 1600s): Art, History and Details

Landscape with Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang (late 1500s–early 1600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

This screen is from a separated pair depicting the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a Chinese painting and poetry theme. Read in the manner customary for Japan, from right to left, the motifs here are “Evening Bell from a Mist-Shrouded Temple,” “Wild Geese Descending to a Sandbar,” “Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village,” and “Mountain Market in Clearing Mist.” The “crab-claw” style of the trees, in which the branches resemble the curved claws of a crab, and the stippling effect indicate a familiarity with Korean interpretations of Chinese painting styles of the Song dynasty..

Object facts

• Title: Landscape with Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
• Date: late 1500s–early 1600s
• Culture: Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper
• Dimensions: Painting: 129.5 x 350.8 cm (51 x 138 1/8 in.); Framed: 145.5 x 366.8 x 62.5 cm (57 5/16 x 144 7/16 x 24 5/8 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2015.483

Collection credit

Gift from the Collection of George Gund III

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