id: 132015
accession number: 1954.582
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The Poet Lin Bu Wandering in the Moonlight, late 1400s. Du Jin (Chinese, 1446-c. 1519). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; image: 156.4 x 72.4 cm (61 9/16 x 28 1/2 in.); overall with knobs: 286.4 x 99 cm (112 3/4 x 39 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1954.582
title: The Poet Lin Bu Wandering in the Moonlight
title in original language: 陪月閒行圖
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creation date: late 1400s
creation date earliest: 1460
creation date latest: 1492
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
technique: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Du Jin (Chinese, 1446-c. 1519) - artist
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measurements: Image: 156.4 x 72.4 cm (61 9/16 x 28 1/2 in.); Overall with knobs: 286.4 x 99 cm (112 3/4 x 39 in.)
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inscription: 陪月閒行杖屨遲，半醒時節更相宜。
吟成疎音寒香句，為問梅花知不知。
檉居杜堇 [印]一書生
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inscription: 1 seal of Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1963)
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inscription: 1 seal of C. C. Wang [Wang Jiqian] 王季遷 (1907–2003)
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inscription: 1 unidentified seal
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Chinese Landscape Painting
opening date: 1954-11-05T04:00:00
Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).
title: Art: The International Language
opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00
Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).
title: 1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei
opening date: 1959-10-16T04:00:00
1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).
title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00
Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
title: The Chinese Painter as Poet
opening date: 2000-09-14T00:00:00
The Chinese Painter as Poet. China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 14-December 17, 2000).
title: Ji Yun-Fei: Last Days of Village Wen
opening date: 2016-02-12T00:00:00
Ji Yun-Fei: Last Days of Village Wen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-July 31, 2016).
title: Escaping to a Better World: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art (Chinese art rotation)
opening date: 2022-05-13T04:00:00
Escaping to a Better World: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13-November 6, 2022).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Chiao-yü-pu. [Jiao yu bu di er ci quan guo mei shu zhan lan hui zhuan ji 敎育部第二次全國美術展覽會專集 = A special collection of the second National Exhibition of Chinese Art under the auspices of the Ministry of Education]. Nanking Art Gallery, Nanjing, China (April 1-23, 1937).', 'opening_date': '1937-04-01T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-11-05T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Chinese Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 19-August 7, 1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-07-19T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'One Thousand Years of Chinese Painting: Tʻang to Chʻing (800 to 1800) : an Exhibition of Fifty Representative Works Borrowed from Major American Collections. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (February 14-March 31, 1968).', 'opening_date': '1968-02-14T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982).', 'opening_date': '1981-02-10T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Zhang Congyu, Shanghai, China
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Zhang Heng 張珩 [1915–1963]
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(C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1954
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1954–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Jiao yu bu di er ci quan guo mei shu zhan lan hui zhuan ji [敎育部第二次全國美術展覽會專集 = A special collection of the second National Exhibition of Chinese Art under the auspices of the Ministry of Education]. Nanjing: Shang wu yin shu guan, 1937.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 138
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Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 148, 149 cat. no. 42; Reproduced: p 66
url: https://archive.org/details/ChineseLandscape
Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: IV, 145; VII, Lists, 245
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 859
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n153
Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959.
page number: cat. no. 42
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Goepper, Roger. Chinesische Malerei; die ältere Tradition. Bern: Hallway, 1960.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 42-43
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Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.
page number: p. 61, cat. no. 44
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Goepper, Roger. The Essence of Chinese Painting. London: Lund Humphries, 1963.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 60, 72, 74, pl. 53
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Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.
page number: Reproduced: p. 425, fig. 567
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Li, Dun Jen. The Ageless Chinese, A History. New York: Scribner, 1965.
page number: p. 305
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 263
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n287
Bowie, Theodore Robert. One Thousand Years of Chinese Painting: Tʻang to Chʻing (800 to 1800) : an Exhibition of Fifty Representative Works Borrowed from Major American Collections, Indiana University Art Museum, February 14 Through March 31, 1968. Bloomington, IN: The Museum, 1968.
page number: cat. no. 27
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 263
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n287
Lee, Sherman E. “Varieties of Portraiture in Chinese and Japanese Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 64, no. 4, 1977, pp. 118–136.
page number: Reproduced: p. 132, fig. 20
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159523
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 349
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n369
Cahill, James. Parting at the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580. New York: Weatherhill, 1978.
page number: p. 155
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Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 157, pp. 191-192
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Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chugoku kaiga shi [中國繪畫史 = A History of Chinese Painting]. Tōkyō: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1981.
page number: Reproduced: p. 215, no. 233
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Little, Stephen. “Dimensions of a Portrait: Du Jin's ‘The Poet Lin Bu Walking in the Moonlight.’” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 75, no. 9, 1988, pp. 330–349.
page number: Reproduced: cover, figs. 1a, 1b, 1c, and 1d
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160049
Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 58, cat. no. 34
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Smith, Judith G., and Wen Fong. Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting. New York: Dept. of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.
page number: Reproduced: p. 208, fig. 25
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Hardie, Peter "Exhibition Review." Oriental Art Magazine XLVI:4 (2000): 72.
page number: p. 72
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Chaves, Jonathan. The Chinese painter as poet. New York: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 8, p. 66, p. 133
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Greene, David B. How to Respond to Strangeness in Art: Four Studies in the Unfamiliar. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 3.4
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Steuber, Jason. China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature. New York: Welcome Books, 2007.
page number: p. 56
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Siegel, Connie Smith. Spirit of Drawing: A Sensory Meditation Guide to Creative Expression. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2007.
page number: p. 91
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Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 310, fig. 28
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Chou, Ju-hsi Chou and Anita Chung. Silent Poetry: Chinese Paintings from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 256-259
url:
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
page number: Mentioned: p. 256
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Tanenbaum, Mary. Fishing on the Terrace: A Collection of Writings, edited by Heather Parks. [Redwood City, CA] Stanford University Press, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: p. 30
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Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: p. 108, fig. 61
url:
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