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Follow the folded ridges from the trees at the bottom up to the peaks floating above the clouds, then read across to his two inscriptions at the top.
Dong Qichang’s first inscription says he painted Mt. Qingbian in the manner of Dong Yuan and sent it to his senior Zhang Shenqi at the end of the fifth month of 1617. He had visited the Bian Mountains, a low range near Wuxing and Lake Tai, but turned them into an abstract design of rising forms, to be enjoyed, the Cleveland Museum of Art says, for “the sheer marvels of brush and ink.”
hanging scroll; ink on paper · Painting: 225 x 67.6 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Chinese painting: Ming
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- Museum title
- Mt. Qingbian
- Artist
- Dong Qichang (Chinese, 1555–1636)
- Date
- 1617
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: 225 x 67.6 cm (88 9/16 x 26 5/8 in.); Overall: 355 x 92.7 cm (139 3/4 x 36 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1555–1636
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.