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Find the two boats in the middle of the lake, then look back to the empty pavilion under the willows on the left bank.
The inscription names the Stream of Wuling, setting of Tao Qian’s tale of the Peach Blossom Spring, in which a fisherman happens on a hidden village of hermits and can never find his way back. Zha Shibiao, who painted this album at sixty-eight, leaves out the usual signs of the story: the lone fisherman, the cave mouth, the village. Instead two men talk from separate boats on a wide lake.
album leaf, ink and light color on paper · Overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Chinese painting: Qing
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- Museum title
- Landscape Album in Various Styles: The Stream of Wuling
- Artist
- Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698)
- Date
- 1684
- Medium
- album leaf, ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1615–1698
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.