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Chinese Literatus in an Autumn Landscape
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
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Chinese Literatus in an Autumn Landscape

late 1400s
Josui Sōen (Japanese, active c. 1489–1500) visual detail
ArtistJosui Sōen (Japanese, active c. 1489–1500)
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Medium
hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Mounted: 111 x 56.2 cm (43 11/16 x 22 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Origin
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift from the Collection of George Gund III

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Provenance

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?–2015

George Gund III [1937–2013], bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

2015–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

George Gund III [1937–2013], bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Sourced Overview Evidence

In this painting, Sesshū Tōyō’s disciple Sōen depicts a Chinese scholar-official astride a donkey with his attendant behind. Framing their passage on the right side of the scene are two bare willows, and on the left, geese in flight, the cries of which capture the pair’s attention. These elements suggest that the season is late autumn. Sōen, who famously received Sesshū’s 1495 Splashed-ink Landscape as a certificate of his success as a pupil, studied with the master in Suō, presentday Yamaguchi, after which he returned to his native province in the Kanto region.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.

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