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A black and off-white ink painted scroll with two small people sitting in a boat on the water underneath a rounded, horizontal cliff with trees on it. In the foreground are rocks and small trees. In the background are small hills.

The ink painted scroll is rectangular in shape and black and off-white in color. It shows a landscape of rocks and small trees in the foreground, behind are two small people in a boat on the water underneath a rounded, horizontal cliff with large trees with lots of leaves on the end, and small, rounded hills in the background. The rocks in the foreground are dark, the cliff is medium-toned around the tip, and the water and background hills are very light toned. The rocks are at the bottom-middle of the scroll, the boat is left-of-center near the bottom, the cliff comes out from the middle-right, and the small hills are to the top-left and right. There is a small vertical line of Chinese symbols in red to the top-right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1923.220
People
Jiang Song 蒋嵩, Chinese (active c. 1500)
Title
Fisherman in a Boat under a Cliff
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, hanging scroll
Date
1st half 16th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/209165

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on silk with a signature reading "Sansong"
Dimensions
painting proper: 146.9 × 53.2 cm (57 13/16 × 20 15/16 in.)
mounting, silk only: 273.4 × 69.2 cm (107 5/8 × 27 1/4 in.)
mounting, including cord and roller ends: 275.9 × 78.7 cm (108 5/8 × 31 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
A 10-006 (Suzuki Kei)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Edward B. Bruce Collection of Chinese Paintings; Gift of Galen L. Stone
Accession Year
1923
Object Number
1923.220
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Suzuki Kei, Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku, Amerika Kanada hen (Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections), University of Tokyo Press (Tokyo, Japan, 1982), p. 54, no. A 10-006

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/07/2019 - 01/13/2020

Verification Level

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