Clouds over the River before Rain 溪雲欲雨圖

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Shen Zhou

Title

Clouds over the River before Rain 溪雲欲雨圖

Place

China (Artist's nationality:)

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1440–1509

Medium

Handscroll; ink and color on paper

Inscriptions

Frontispiece (引首) by Luo Zhenyu 羅振玉: 石田老人溪雲欲雨圖卷 石渠寶笈三編著錄己未春羅振玉謹署題 Seals: 上虞羅氏，振玉印信 Inscription on Painting: 溪雲欲雨圖 弘治甲子仲夏四日長洲沈周画 [Clouds over the river before rain; on the fourth day of the fifth month in the year jiazi of the Hongzhi reign (1504), painted by Shen Zhou]. Artist's Seal:启南, Collectors' Seal: 嘉慶御覽之寶，石渠寶笈，寶笈三編，吳沈氏有竹莊圖書，嘉慶鑑賞，三希堂精鑑璽，宜子孫. Colophons by Nagao Uzan 長尾 雨山 (1864–1942) and Naitō Konan 内藤 湖南(1866–1934) [see CMA Mi Youren handscroll, 33.220]

Dimensions

34.8 × 810.3 cm (13 3/4 × 319 in.)

Credit Line

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund

Reference Number

1961.224

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