A black and off-white ink painted scroll with two small people sitting in a boat on the water underneath a rounded, horizontal cliff with trees on it. In the foreground are rocks and small trees. In the background are small hills.
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The ink painted scroll is rectangular in shape and black and off-white in color. It shows a landscape of rocks and small trees in the foreground, behind are two small people in a boat on the water underneath a rounded, horizontal cliff with large trees with lots of leaves on the end, and small, rounded hills in the background. The rocks in the foreground are dark, the cliff is medium-toned around the tip, and the water and background hills are very light toned. The rocks are at the bottom-middle of the scroll, the boat is left-of-center near the bottom, the cliff comes out from the middle-right, and the small hills are to the top-left and right. There is a small vertical line of Chinese symbols in red to the top-right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1923.220
People
Jiang Song 蒋嵩, Chinese (active c. 1500)
Title
Fisherman in a Boat under a Cliff
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, hanging scroll
Date
1st half 16th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/209165

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on silk with a signature reading "Sansong"
Dimensions
painting proper: 146.9 × 53.2 cm (57 13/16 × 20 15/16 in.)
mounting, silk only: 273.4 × 69.2 cm (107 5/8 × 27 1/4 in.)
mounting, including cord and roller ends: 275.9 × 78.7 cm (108 5/8 × 31 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
A 10-006 (Suzuki Kei)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Edward B. Bruce Collection of Chinese Paintings; Gift of Galen L. Stone
Accession Year
1923
Object Number
1923.220
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Suzuki Kei, Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku, Amerika Kanada hen (Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections), University of Tokyo Press (Tokyo, Japan, 1982), p. 54, no. A 10-006

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/07/2019 - 01/13/2020

Verification Level

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