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<em>Cloudy Mountains</em> captures the view of a lush and misty riverscape, an impression of Mi Youren’s new environment, painted in a moment of peace. <br><br>With the fall of the Northern Song dynasty in 1127 upon the Jurchen’s military invasion, Mi Youren fled south across the Yangzi River. In 1130, he had reached Xinchang in Zhejiang province and thanked his host with this painting for having given him shelter. <br><br>Mi Youren was the oldest son of the art critic Mi Fu (1051– 1107); both developed a distinct style of mountain scenery by accumulating wet ink dots that create a hazy atmosphere.
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113945
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Cloudy Mountains
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painting
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113945
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painting
title
Cloudy Mountains
description
<em>Cloudy Mountains</em> captures the view of a lush and misty riverscape, an impression of Mi Youren’s new environment, painted in a moment of peace. <br><br>With the fall of the Northern Song dynasty in 1127 upon the Jurchen’s military invasion, Mi Youren fled south across the Yangzi River. In 1130, he had reached Xinchang in Zhejiang province and thanked his host with this painting for having given him shelter. <br><br>Mi Youren was the oldest son of the art critic Mi Fu (1051– 1107); both developed a distinct style of mountain scenery by accumulating wet ink dots that create a hazy atmosphere.
date
1130
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60513868
creators
6215
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Painting
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Image: 43.7 x 192.6 cm (17 3/16 x 75 13/16 in.); Overall: 45.5 x 646.8 cm (17 15/16 x 254 5/8 in.)
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China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
accession
1933.22
Source extras
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Handscroll; ink and color on silk
tombstone
Cloudy Mountains (雲山圖), 1130. Mi Youren (Chinese, 1072–1151). Handscroll; ink and color on silk; image: 43.7 x 192.6 cm (17 3/16 x 75 13/16 in.); overall: 45.5 x 646.8 cm (17 15/16 x 254 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1933.220
titleInOriginalLanguage
雲山圖
collection
ASIAN - Handscroll
inscriptions
inscription
好山無數接天涯，烟靄陰晴日夕佳。/
要識先生會到此，故留筆戲在君家。/
庚戍歲，辟地新昌作。元暉。/
[seal] 元暉戲作
inscription_translation
Artist's inscription:
Fine hills are endless toward the edges of heaven.
So are mist and cloud, rain and shine, days and nights.
Had I known that you’d be visiting here.
I would have left this playful work in your home.
In the year of gengxu [1130], [I painted this] while seeking refuge in Xinchang. Yuanhui.
[seal] “Yuan hui xi zuo” (Yuanhui playfully made this)
inscription
[Seal] 安陽孫氏
inscription_translation
Anyang Sun shi
inscription
[Seal] 畢瀧
inscription_translation
Bi Long
inscription
[Seal] 成親王
inscription_translation
Prince Cheng
inscription
[Seal] 永瑆
inscription_translation
Yungxing (1752–1823)
inscription
[Seal] 錫三 appears twice
inscription_translation
Xisan
inscription
[Seal] 養性齋珍藏書畫印
inscription_translation
Yangxing zhai zhen cang shu hua yin (calligraphy and painting in the collection of the Yangxing studio)
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[Seal] 芷陔審定真跡
inscription_translation
"Zhigai shen ding zhen ji” (authenticated by Zhigai [Li Zaixian 李在銛])
inscription
[Seal] 玉簡齋
inscription_translation
“Yu jian zhai" Yujian Studio
inscription
2 colophons (1 dated 1650), inscription dated 1647, and 2 seals of Wang To (1592–1652)
inscription
1 colophon, dated second month of the gengyin year 庚寅 (1650), and 2 seals of Chen Kuang 陳爌 (1646 jinshi degree)
inscription
7 seals unidentified
inscription
A separate scroll containing six colophons on Cloudy Mountains exists; the inscribers are Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉 (1866–1940), Naito Torajiro 內藤虎次郎 (1866–1934), Nagao Ko 長尾甲 (1864–1942), and Wu Changshuo 吳昌碩 (1844–1927). Naito Torajiro alone wrote three colophons.
didYouKnow
This scroll is one of the museum’s earliest dated Chinese paintings.
citations
citation
<em>Tō Sō Gen Min meigaten-gō</em> [唐宋元明名画展号]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Asahi Shinbun Hakkōjo, 1928.
page_number
p. 56
citation
"Part II. Eighteenth Annual Report of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1933." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 21, no. 2 (February 1934): 1–15.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 4
citation
<em>The Chinese Exhibition; A Commemorative Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, November 1935-March 1936</em>. London: Faber and Faber, 1936.
page_number
Mentioned: cat. no. 1140, p. 48; Reproduced: cat. no. 1140a-c, p. 110
citation
<em>Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition: June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936.
page_number
cat. no. 382
citation
<em>Pacific Cultures, Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures</em>. San Francisco, CA: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939.
page_number
Reproduced: cat. no. 126
citation
Francis, Henry. "Loans to Important Exhibitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>26, no. 7 (July 1939): 123.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 123
citation
Lee, Sherman. "Chinese Landscape Painting." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>41, no. 9 (November 1954): 199–201.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 200
citation
Lee, Sherman E. <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.
page_number
Mentioned: cat. no. 15; Reproduced: pp. 32, 33
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 854
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 258
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 258
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 341
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “River Village: Fisherman’s Joy.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 7 (October 1979): 271–288.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 271–288, fig. 11
citation
Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
page_number
Reproduced: cat. no. 24, pp. 42–44
citation
Harrist, Robert E. "<em>Watching Clouds Rise</em>: A Tang Dynasty Couplet and Its Illustration in Song Painting." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 7 (1991): 301–323.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 323, p. 313
citation
Cunningham, Michael. “Notes on the Artist Sōami and a Lost Painting.” <em>Monumenta Serica</em> 43 (1995): 405–438.
page_number
Reproduced: pl. 9, p. 432
citation
<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara</em> [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 38–39, cat. no. 18
citation
<em>Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014.
page_number
Reproduced: fig. 3, pp. 98–100
citation
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 50–55
citation
Burnett, Katharine P. "A New Look at a New Look: Painting and Theory of Seventeenth-Century China." Little, Stephen. In <em>17th-century Chinese paintings from the Tsao family collection.</em> Stephen Little, ed., 130–167. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich, Germany; DelMonico Books, 2016.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 158–159
citation
Von Spee, Clarissa. "Lichtenstein's China: Consider the inspiration of a 900-year-old scroll on a Pop Art master." <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 57, no. 4 (July/August 2017): 14–15.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 14–15; Mentioned: p. 14
citation
Moser, Jeffrey. "Mist as Method." <em>Manual </em>Issue 9 (Fall 2017): 16–29.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 6
citation
Hai, Willow Weilan. "Mountains of China: Legends and Civilization." <em>Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer's Lens</em>. Willow Weilan Hai, ed., 11–41. New York: China Institute, 2018.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 31
citation
Giuffrida, Noelle. <em>Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America</em>. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 82, fig. 42
citation
Chaves, Jonathan. <em>The Chinese painter as poet</em>. New York, NY: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 2000.
page_number
Reproduced: cat. no. 2, pp. 34–35, p. 132
citation
Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. <em>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</em>. Edited by Clarissa Von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 148–149, no. 45
citation
Park, J. P. "Pastmodern: The Traditions of the Avant-Garde in Early Asian Art." <em>Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society</em> 87 (February 14, 2023): 43–57.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 46 (fig. 4 and 4a); Mentioned: p. 45
citation
Liu, Yiwen 刘漪文. “人间天堂的别处想象：在克利夫兰艺术博物馆遥望中国江南” [Imagining Paradise Elsewhere: Gazing at China's Jiangnan from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. <em>The Art Newspaper</em> 艺术新闻中文版, November 2, 2023.
page_number
Reproduced
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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2026-05-29 05:59:42.605000
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113945
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Chinese Art
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Handscroll; ink and color on silk
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