id: 135430 accession number: 1958.427 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.427 updated: 2024-04-04 11:13:06.716000 Dragon; Tiger, c. 1250–79. Fachang Muqi (Chinese, 1220–1280). Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on silk; painting: 125.2 x 57.2 cm (49 5/16 x 22 1/2 in.); overall: 226.8 x 71.8 cm (89 5/16 x 28 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1958.427 title: Dragon; Tiger title in original language: 龍虎圖 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1250–79 creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1275 current location: 240A Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fachang Muqi (Chinese, 1220–1280) - artist active mid-13th century --- measurements: Painting: 125.2 x 57.2 cm (49 5/16 x 22 1/2 in.); Overall: 226.8 x 71.8 cm (89 5/16 x 28 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 道有 translation: remark: inscription: 雜華室印 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Chinese Art opening date: 1962-01-08T05:00:00 Chinese Art. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (January 8-26, 1962). title: The Art of Southern Sung China opening date: 1962-02-15T05:00:00 The Art of Southern Sung China. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (February 15-April 15, 1962). title: The Colors of Ink opening date: 1974-01-10T04:00:00 The Colors of Ink. Asia House Galleries (January 10-March 3, 1974); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-May 12, 1974). title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-11T05:00:00 Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982). title: Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia opening date: 1990-07-24T04:00:00 Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 25, 1990). title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). title: Roaring Tigers and Leaping Carp: Decoding the Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting opening date: 2009-10-09T00:00:00 Roaring Tigers and Leaping Carp: Decoding the Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting. The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (October 9, 2009-January 3, 2010). title: Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting (Chinese art rotation) opening date: 2023-11-10T05:00:00 Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2023-May 5, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Chinese Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 19-August 7, 1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-07-19T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Japanese Decorative Style. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (August 30-October 15, 1961)', 'opening_date': '1961-08-30T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 16, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-03-12T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Ashikaga Yoshimitsu 足利義滿 [1358–1408] date: footnotes: citations: Ashikaga Yoshinori 足利義教 [1394–1441] or 足利義政 [1436–1490] (Zakka shitsu yin 雜華室印) date: footnotes: citations: Tokugawa Iemitsu 德川家光 [1604–1651] date: footnotes: citations: Viscount Sakai 子爵 酒井氏 [late 1800s–early 1900s] date: footnotes: citations: (Howard Hollis and Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1958 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1958– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” June 5, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0398/ Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” June 5, 1959, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0398 Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 24b url: Chinese Art: An Exhibition of Paintings, Jades, Bronzes and Ceramics: Being a Contribution Made by Smith College Museum of Art to the College Interim Session, 1962. Northampton, Massachusetts: The Smith College Museum of Art, 1962. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 3b, pl. V url: Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962. page number: Reproduced: pp. 6, 7 url: Cahill, James. The Art of Southern Sung China. New York: Asia House, 1962. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 27 and 28, pp. 62 and fold-out url: 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. 260 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n284 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. 260 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n284 Lee, Sherman Emery, and James Robinson. The Colors of Ink: Chinese Paintings and Related Ceramics from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1974. page number: cat. no. 4 url: 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. 343 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n363 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. 63, p. 82 url: Wilson, J. Keith. "Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 8 (1990): 286-323. page number: Reproduced: p. 303, 320 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297 Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 90–93 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.427/1958.427_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.427/1958.427_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.427/1958.427_full.tif