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Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Moonlit Landscape

Moonlit Landscape

late 1500s
Framed: 155 x 364.2 x 60.6 cm (61 x 143 3/8 x 23 7/8 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

This unsigned and unsealed composition includes imagery from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. Scanning the composition from right to left, four of the Eight Views subjects appear: sunset glow over a fishing village, returning sails off a distant shore, autumn moon over Lake Donting, and evening bell from a mist-shrouded temple. Not all the elements of the traditional Eight Views theme are here, but the artist suggests its literary presence by leading the viewer through a summer’s journey from one day to the next, aided, like the travelers in the landscape, by the light of the moon.
  • ?-2015
    George Gund III [1937-2013], ?-2015, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2015-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2015-present
  • Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019. Reproduced: p. 68-69, fig. 52
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III" (May 21- September 3, 2017)
    Ink Paintings and Ash-Glazed Ceramics: Medieval Calligraphy, Painting, and Ceramic Art from Japan and Korea. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-May 28, 2000).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.482