Traveling Among Streams and Mountains
Image (Frontispiece with calligraphy): 15 1/8 × 42 1/2 inches (38.42 × 107.95 cm)
Mount (front silk mount (qiangeshui)): 15 1/4 × 5 7/8 inches (38.74 × 14.92 cm)
Mount (Back silk mount (hougeshui)): 15 1/4 × 5 7/8 inches (38.74 × 14.92 cm)
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Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 7,1980- January 4,1981;The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 7, 1981- April 5,1981;The Asia Society, December 3, 1981- February 28, 1982; Tokyo National Museum, October 4, 1982- November 17, 1982. No. 27.
Expressions of Brush and Ink: Literati and Chan (Zen) Painting in China and Japan, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, January 13, 2010- August 1, 2010.
The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 20, 2010- January 2, 2011. Cat. No.299.
Bian Yongyu 卞永譽 (1645-1712), by 1712 [1];
Qing Dynasty imperial court, Peking (modern-day Beijing), China, by 1745 [2];
J. D. Chen (Chen Rentao 陳仁濤,1906-1968), Hong Kong, by June 14, 1951-1968, as by Sun Chih-wei [3];
By descent to his daughter, M. F. Chen, Bramhope, Leeds, and Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England, 1968-1974 [4];
Purchased from M. F. Chen by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1974.
NOTES:
[1] Bian Yongyu, Shigutang shuhua huikao [Notes and records on calligraphy and paintings],1682. Facsimile reprint of the original Kangxi edition (Shanghai: 1921), Hua, ch. 11, 7a, b. Several of Bian Yongyu’s seals appear on the handscroll.
[2] Numerous inscriptions and seals related to Qing emperors appear on the handscroll, and it is included in Shiqu baoji [Catalogue of painting and calligraphy in the Imperial Collection], compiled by Zhang Zhao et al.; commissioned by the Qianlong emperor 1744, completed 1745. Facsimile reprinted (Shanghai: 1918), Ch. 14, Yangxindian, 32a-33a.
[3] J. D. Chen (Chen Jan Dao) was a collector of Chinese art and coins. In a letter to Laurence Sickman, Curator of Asian Art, dated June 14, 1951, the Hong Kong dealer T. Y. King writes that he has been speaking with Mr. Chen, who provided photographs of two paintings Sickman was interested in purchasing from him, including this painting which was at the time attributed to Sun Chih-wei. One colophon dated 1951 and nineteen seals of J. D. Chen appear on the handscroll.
[4] According to Laurence Sickman, Director, in a letter to Roger Bluett, Bluett and Sons, Ltd., May 15, 1974, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files, the painting had been brought to England from Switzerland “in the last two years.” In a letter to Miss Chen dated October 3, 1974, Sickman writes: “Every time I look at it I am reminded of my first glimpse of it in a bedroom at the Ritz, and your very great kindness in bringing it to London.”
Shiqu baoji [Catalogue of painting and calligraphy in the Imperial Collection/ Compiled by Zhang Zhao et al.; commissioned by the Qianlong emperor 1744, completed 1745. Facsimile reprinted (Shanghai: 1918), Ch. 14, Yangxindian, 32a-33a.
Pian Yongyu, Shigutang shuhua huikao[ Notes and records on calligraphy and paintings],1682. Facsimile reprint of the original Kangxi edition. (Shanghai: 1921) Hua, ch. 11, 7a, b.
J.D. Chen, Jin gui lun hua [Essays on paintings in the King Kuei collection] (Hong Kong: 1956), pl. 1; vol. II, no. 5.
J.D. Chen, Jin gui lun hua pin shi [Notes and comments on paintings in the Jin gui collections], 2 vols. (Hong Kong: 1956), vol. I, 38, 42.
Susan Bush, “Clearing After Snow in the Min Mountains and Chin Landscape painting”, Oriental Art, n.s., XI, no. 3 ( Autumn, 1965), 168, 170-172, fig. 11.
Nelson-Atkins Gallery Bulletin, vol. V, no. 3, (February 1976): 48.
Richard M. Barnhart, Yoshitaka Iriya, Yujiro Nakada, To Gen, Kyonen [ Tung Yuan; Chu-jan], Bunjinga suihen [ Essence of Chinese and Japanese literati painting], vol. II ( Tokyo: 1977), 51,69, 138, 145, fig. 22.
Wai-Kam Ho, et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. (The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, c1980), 44-47, no.25.
“Handscroll Landscape Paintings…”, Oriental Art Magazine, vol. 39, No. 3 ( Autumn , 1993),20-27, fig. 3.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 317.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 347, fig. 196.
James C.Y. Watt, The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Yale University Press, 2010), 210-211. Fig.299.
