Retreat among Streams and Mountains

Original Language Title谿山高逸

Artist Zhu Duan (Chinese, ca. 1501 - 1551)

DateMing dynasty (1368-1644)

MediumHanging scroll (laid down on panel); ink and color on silk

DimensionsImage: 72 1/16 × 50 3/8 inches (183.04 × 127.95 cm)
Overall: 78 1/2 × 56 1/2 inches (199.39 × 143.51 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number35-153

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionScholar reclining in a pavilion; two attendants at left preparing wine. Towering mountain in background; stream and bridge at right. Restoration in central part: trees, waterfall and clouds.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Nelson-Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, November 7, 1980 – January 4, 1981; The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 11 – March 29, 1982, no. 141.

Emperors, Scholars and Temples: Tastemakers of China’s Ming and Qing Dynasties, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, August 12, 2016 – January, 2017.

Provenance

Tonying and Compay;

Purchased from Tonying and Compay through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

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), 165, no. 141. (repro.).

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