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Source Description
Zha Shibiao, a native of Anhui province, moved to Yangzhou later in his career, like so many of his fellow countrymen. At age 68, he painted this album with seasonal landscapes in various styles. Painted in fresh colors and wet strokes, all depict typical scenes of Jiangnan, the Yangzi delta: a herdboy on a buffalo wading through water, boating on the stream to the Peach Blossom Spring at Wulin, a waterfront town shrouded in mist, a scholar on his donkey enjoying the red autumn leaves, and drinking tea on a boat while watching migrating birds.
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Document identity
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132924
label
Landscape Album in Various Styles: Spring Plowing
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painting
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Source metadata
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132924
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painting
title
Landscape Album in Various Styles: Spring Plowing
description
Zha Shibiao, a native of Anhui province, moved to Yangzhou later in his career, like so many of his fellow countrymen. At age 68, he painted this album with seasonal landscapes in various styles. Painted in fresh colors and wet strokes, all depict typical scenes of Jiangnan, the Yangzi delta: a herdboy on a buffalo wading through water, boating on the stream to the Peach Blossom Spring at Wulin, a waterfront town shrouded in mist, a scholar on his donkey enjoying the red autumn leaves, and drinking tea on a boat while watching migrating birds.
date
1684
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60516816
creators
23580
genreSpecific
Painting
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
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China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
accession
1955.37.2
Source extras
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Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
tombstone
Landscape Album in Various Styles: Spring Plowing (四季山水圖冊), 1684. Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698). Album leaf; ink and light color on paper; overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, 1955.37.2
titleInOriginalLanguage
四季山水圖冊
collection
ASIAN - Album leaf
inscriptions
inscription
Artist's inscription, signature, and seal:
A picture of spring plowing. Painted by an Aging Idler. [seal] Shibiao.
formerAccessionNumbers
55.37c
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. <em>Chinese Landscape Painting</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.
page_number
cat. no. 107
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: cat. no. 875
citation
Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. <em>The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974.
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. 226, pp. 303-305
citation
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. <em>Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 386-390
creditline
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
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2026-05-29 06:50:23.886000
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132924
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Chinese Art
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ASIAN - Album leaf
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Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
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male
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photo
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