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Look past the twisted pine to the figure in the doorway, then up at Shitao’s poem filling the sky, and down to the two colophons beneath.
Shitao wrote the long poem on this painting in spring 1697 as a farewell gift for Wang Muting, who was leaving for the coast of Fujian. In it Wang asks to be put in a picture before he goes, and Shitao promises that hills and valleys will appear at the tip of his brush, “not ink, nor mist.” The poem also praises Wang’s father, a favorite of the emperor. Two later colophons are mounted below.
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper · Painting: 39 x 52 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Chinese painting: Qing
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- Museum title
- Spring Mist over Jiangnan
- Artist
- Shitao (Chinese, 1642–1707)
- Date
- 1697
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Painting: 39 x 52 cm (15 3/8 x 20 1/2 in.); Overall with knobs: 167 x 76 cm (65 3/4 x 29 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1642–1707
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.