Reminiscences of Qinhuai River (1642–1707): Art, History and Details

Reminiscences of Qinhuai River (1642–1707) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Shitao (Chinese, 1642–1707).

The work and its context

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

Shitao’s skillfully rendered composition suggests a sweeping movement from the base of the central rising mass, silhouette of forest, and a bright bend of misty atmosphere under the distant hills, to form almost a continual circle of energy—a gentle vortex. That is a perfect embodiment of the early Qing ideal of a momentous flow, with suggestion of the subterranean veins and linkages.

Object facts

• Title: Reminiscences of Qinhuai River
• Date: 1642–1707
• Creator attribution: Shitao (Chinese, 1642–1707)
• Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: album leaf, ink and color on Song paper
• Dimensions: Image: 25.5 x 20.2 cm (10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Overall: 33 x 24.3 cm (13 x 9 9/16 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1966.31.7

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Contag, Victoria. Die beiden Steine: Beitrag zum Verständnis des Wesens Chinesischer Landschaftsmalerei. Braunschweig: H. Klemm, 1950.
• Contag, Victoria. Zwei Meister chinesischer Landschaftsmalerei, Shih-t'ao und Shih-ch'i; ein Beitrag zum Verständnis des Wesens chinesischer Landschaftsmalerei. Baden-Baden: W. Klein, 1955.
• Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸, Shen Fu 傅申, and Ichisada Miyazaki 宮崎市定. Sekitō 石濤. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1976.

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