Road to Shu
詳細資料
Mountains with dramatically towering peaks and deep gorges show travelers leading loaded mules over footbridges and mountain paths transporting trade goods over long distances. These trade routes are characteristic of Sichuan province (or Shu). This painting is among the largest produced by the Yuan studios in 18th-century Yangzhou to furbish the spacious residences of wealthy Yangzhou salt merchants or princely palaces.
John L. Severance Fund
May 31, 2007(Poly Art Auctions, Beijing, China, May 31, 2007 sale)
2010(Beijing Council International Auction Co., Ltd., "Classical Chinese Paintings," 5 December 2010, lot 0998, sold to the Moss Gallery)
20 March 2014(Offered at Sotheby’s New York, Fine Classical Chinese Painting & Calligraphy, 20 March 2014, lot 565. Unsold.)
2010-2019(Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., London, UK, 2010-2019, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
2019-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2019-present
Overall: 266 x 275 公分 (104 3/4 x 108 1/4 英吋)
Painting only: 186.7 x 255.3 公分 (73 1/2 x 100 1/2 英吋)
絹本
artist's seals: yuan yao shi yin 袁耀 之印, zhao dao shi 昭道 氏
two collector’s seals: jin ju and illegible
Shu han xinglü //shi guihai xia //Hanshang Yuan Yao hua//
蜀椷行旅时癸亥夏- 邗上 袁耀 画
Cantilevered Road to Shu [Sichuan province] painted in summer of the guihai year [1743]; Yuan Yao from Hanshang [Yangzhou city]
水墨設色