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Wild Geese Descending on a Sandbar, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
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About this work
This painting was part of a set of album leaves representing the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme originating in Chinese poetry and painting that spread to both Korea and Japan. Southern China’s Xiao-Xiang area, where the mist-covered banks of the Xiang River created a complex landscape shifting like the moods and minds of people, captured the imaginations of generations of painters and calligraphers. Inscriptions on these works suggest that they were possibly ordered by newly prominent Japanese Confucian scholars.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineWild Geese Descending on a Sandbar, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang (瀟湘八景の内 平沙落雁図), 1788. Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1841). Album leaf remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; image: 29.5 x 49 cm (11 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.); overall: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1980.188.4
