# Album of Seasonal Landscapes, Leaf C (previous leaf 6)

**Xiao Yuncong** (Chinese, 1596–1673)  
1668  
album leaf; ink and light color on paper  
Overall: 21 x 15.8 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1955.302.6. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.302.6).

## About this work

Throughout his lifetime, Xiao Yuncong visited Nanjing and Yangzhou, cities embedded in the fertile and water-rich Jiangnan region, as reflected in his paintings. Xiao painted from nature, and his landscapes are informed by the seasons and his travels, as well as by his experience as a print designer. Xiao’s fresh, light colors continue to appear in later Shanghai school paintings. This album was formerly in the collection of Li Yufen in Yangzhou and then owned by Wu Hufan in Shanghai. While the artist impressed his seal consistently below his poetic inscriptions in the upper parts of the composition, the red seals on the margins and in the lower corners of the paintings are impressions by the album’s previous owners.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

Xiao Yuncong painted this in 1668, aged 72. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

### How it was made

- **Album leaf.** A page from an album, meant to be held and looked at closely, one opening at a time.
- **Ink on paper.** Ink made from soot and animal glue, ground with water on an inkstone. A single brush can give a hair-fine line or a broad wash, and nothing can be corrected.

### [Xiao Yuncong](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/xiao-yuncong)

Chinese, 1596–1673

Xiao Yuncong was a painter from Wuhu in Anhui province who refused to serve the Qing after the fall of the Ming dynasty and lived as a loyalist recluse. He is regarded as the founder of the Gushu school of landscape painting, known for its dry, angular brushwork and crystalline rock forms. His designs for a woodblock-illustrated album of the scenery of Taiping prefecture, published in 1648, were widely influential.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- The artist was 72
- Real size: about 8½ × 6 in (21 × 16 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 17th century
- Movement: [Chinese painting](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/chinese-painting)
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/609/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/album-of-seasonal-landscapes-leaf-c-previous-leaf-6-cma-132839).