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A black and off-white ink painted scroll showing a small man in a boat, trees by the shore, and a tall, vertical cliff in the background.

The ink painted scroll is rectangular in shape and black and off-white in color. It shows a landscape of trees on a shore line in the foreground, a tall, vertical cliff in the background with trees on them, and a smaller mountain with a small building in the far background. To the bottom-right is a small man in a boat on the water and some trees and rocks in the foreground along the bottom. The trees on the shore are on the bottom-left and the tall cliff is along the left side of the scroll and reaches towards the top--middle. There is blurry mist along the bottom of the cliff and behind the trees. There is a vertical line of Chinese writing to the top-right in black and red ink.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1923.217
People
School of Dai Jin 戴進, Chinese (1388 - 1462)
Title
Mountain Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
hanging scroll, painting
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/209769

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk, with signature reading "Qiantang Dai Wenjin"
Dimensions
painting proper: 155.5 × 89 cm (61 1/4 × 35 1/16 in.)
mounting, silk only: 257.2 × 95.9 cm (101 1/4 × 37 3/4 in.)
mounting, including cord: 262.3 × 95.9 cm (103 1/4 × 37 3/4 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
A 10-008 (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
1923.217
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 10-008

Exhibition History

  • Chinese Painting and Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/17/1991 - 01/26/1992
  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/07/2019 - 01/13/2020

Verification Level

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