River landscape with a seated figure in foreground
date: label: Date
content: 14th century
label: Period
content: Yuan dynasty
notes: label: Description
content: Depicting a river landscape, with a scholar seated on rocks in the foreground. In the background is a group of farm buildings with one figure and there are unidentifiable birds in the sky. Three seals, no labels or inscriptions. Mounted in a folder.
label: Marks
content: Three seals.
label: Provenance
content: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1905
label: Provenance
content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1905 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1905 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1905 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According to Curatorial Remark 9, A. Yonemura, exhibition label text, "Luminous Shadows," 1982: "The seal, "Tenzan" in the lower right-hand corner of this Chinese landscape painting identifies it as having once been in the collection of the third Ashikaga shogun, Yoshimitsu (1358-1408). The prestigious collection of Chinese paintings and works of art belonging to the Ashikaga shoguns was begun in the mid-14th century...The Ashikaga Collection was not, however, a fixed entity. Additions were made as newly imported works became available, and paintings were occasionally transferred to vassals who shared the shoguns' interest in Chinese art. The Gyomotsu, the treasures from the Ashikaga collection, were dispersed upon the fall of the Ashikaga shoguns during the 16th century, but retained their prestige as they passed into the possession of later collectors, including tea ceremony devotees of the 17th century."
label: Provenance
content: [2] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 504, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Provenance
content: [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Zen, Tea, and Chinese Art in Medieval Japan (December 13, 2014 to June 14, 2015)
label: Exhibition History
content: The Idea of China in Japan: The Tea Ceremony in Japan (December 19, 1999 to June 11, 2000)
label: Exhibition History
content: Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)
label: Exhibition History
content: Luminous Shadows (April 1, 1982 to June 21, 1982)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese Album Leaves and Lacquer (February 22, 1971 to November 22, 1971)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: China
topic: label: Topic
content: landscape
label: Topic
content: farming
label: Topic
content: Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)
label: Topic
content: river
label: Topic
content: China
label: Topic
content: Chinese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1905.264
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Ink on silk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 28.9 x 28.8 cm (11 3/8 x 11 5/16 in)