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Follow the long line of geese from the upper left as it bends down toward the sandbars, then find the small pavilion among the trees at lower left.
Wild geese coming down on a sandbar is another of the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang. Tani Bunchō painted this leaf in 1788, in his mid-twenties. The Cleveland Museum of Art reads the inscriptions on the set as a sign that it was possibly ordered by Japanese Confucian scholars, newly prominent at the time, and Bunchō himself had grown up in a strongly Confucian family.
album leaf remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper · Image: 29.5 x 49 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Wild Geese Descending on a Sandbar, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
- Artist
- Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841)
- Date
- 1788
- Medium
- album leaf remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 29.5 x 49 cm (11 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.); Overall: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1763–1841
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.