id: 132015 accession number: 1954.582 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.582 updated: 2023-04-27 11:22:35.722000 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 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1400s creation date earliest: 1460 creation date latest: 1492 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Du Jin (Chinese, 1446-c. 1519) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: 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 translation: remark: inscription: 1 seal of Zhang Heng 張珩 (1915–1963) translation: remark: inscription: 1 seal of C. C. Wang [Wang Jiqian] 王季遷 (1907–2003) translation: remark: inscription: 1 unidentified seal translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen opening date: 2016-02-12T00:00:00 Ji Yunfei: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 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). * Chinese Landscape Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5-December 26, 1954). * Chinese Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 19-August 7, 1960). * 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). * 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). --- PROVENANCE Zhang Congyu, Shanghai, China date: footnotes: citations: Zhang Heng 張珩 [1915–1963] date: footnotes: citations: (C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1954 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1954– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Lin Bu withdrew from prestigious government service and lived as a hermit by the West Lake in Hangzhou. digital description: wall description: Lin Bu (967–1028), a Northern Song (960–1127) poet and hermit who lived at the West Lake in Hangzhou, was known for having plum trees for his female companions and cranes for his children. This hanging scroll depicts the poet walking in the moonlight and looking at the plum tree, a scene described in his most well-known poem on plum blossoms.

Surviving works signed by Du Jin are rare and this painting is one of them. Here, the artist used lively brushwork to depict the plum tree and rocks, exemplified in varying dots and strokes, and sweeps in different shades of ink. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: 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 url: 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 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. 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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 url: 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. 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