id: 136668 accession number: 1961.206 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.206 updated: 2023-03-24 11:13:13.550000 The Lantern Night Excursion of Zhong Kui, late 1200s-early 1300s. Yan Hui (Chinese, active 1270–1310). Handscroll; ink and slight color on silk; image: 24.8 x 240.3 cm (9 3/4 x 94 5/8 in.); overall: 25.7 x 904.4 cm (10 1/8 x 356 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1961.206 title: The Lantern Night Excursion of Zhong Kui title in original language: 鍾馗元夜出遊圖 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1200s-early 1300s creation date earliest: 1250 creation date latest: 1325 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: handscroll; ink and slight color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Yan Hui (Chinese, active 1270–1310) - artist Yan Hui was a professional painter skilled in painting landscapes, figures, deities, and ghosts. He was a native of Luling 廬陵, Jiangxi 江西 province, active in the late Southern Song and early Yuan dynasty. --- measurements: Image: 24.8 x 240.3 cm (9 3/4 x 94 5/8 in.); Overall: 25.7 x 904.4 cm (10 1/8 x 356 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's signature [and probable seal]: Yan Qiuyue 顏秋月 Title on frontispiece and 1 seal of Niu Shuyu 鈕樹玉 (1760-1827): Qiuyue mohuan 秋月墨幻 [Qiuyue's Ink Fantasy]. 31 additional seals: 2 of Yang Shiqi 楊士奇 (1365-1444); 2 of An Guo 安國 (1481-1534); 8 of Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 (1525-1590); 2 of Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 (1640-1686); 4 of Pu Tung 溥侗 (1870-1952); 7 of Tan Jing 譚敬 (1911-1991); 1 of Liu Ting-chih (20th c.); 5 unidentified. translation: remark: inscription: An inscription by Zizhi Shanren 紫芝山人 [probably Jiang Hui 蔣惠], dated 1389 translation: remark: inscription: An inscription by Wu Kuan 吳寬 (1436–1504) 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: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). 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: Looking East: Yuan Dynasty Paintings opening date: 1976-09-15T04:00:00 Looking East: Yuan Dynasty Paintings. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (September 15-November 6, 1976). title: Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques opening date: 1981-02-07T05:00:00 Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981). 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: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China opening date: 1988-02-10T05:00:00 Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 10, 1988). 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: 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: Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections opening date: 2012-11-01T00:00:00 Masterpieces of Early Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in American Collections. Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China (organizer) (November 1, 2012-January 3, 2013). title: Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting opening date: 2015-11-14T00:00:00 Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 14, 2015-April 24, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 24, 1968). * Looking East. The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (1976). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003). --- PROVENANCE Yang Shiqi 楊士奇 [1365–1444] date: footnotes: citations: An Guo 安國 [1481–1534] date: footnotes: citations: Xiang Yuanbian 項元汴 [1525–1590] date: footnotes: citations: Geng Zhaozhong 耿昭忠 [1640–1686] date: footnotes: citations: Pu Tong 溥侗 [1870–1952] date: footnotes: citations: Tan Jing 譚敬 [1911–1991] date: footnotes: citations: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1961 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Zhong Kui was an ancient ghostbuster. digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 27 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. 261 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n285 Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-kam Ho. Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art; [distributed by the Press of Case Western Reserve University], 1968. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 206 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. 261 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n285 Dubosc, Jean-Pierre. “Plum Blossoms in Moonlight: A Round Fan Painting Signed Yen Hui.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 26, 1972, pp. 67–70. page number: Reproduced: pp. 67-70, fig. 4 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20111043 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. 14 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. 345 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n365 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. 91, pp. 111-112 url: 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. 50, cat. no. 27 url: Shanghai bo wu guan 上海博物館. Han mo hui cui: xi du Meiguo cang Zhongguo Wu dai Song Yuan shu hua zhen pin [翰墨薈萃: 细读美国藏中国五代宋元书画珍品 = Masterpieces of early Chinese painting and calligraphy in American collections]. Beijing: Beijing da xue chu ban she, 2012. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 43, pp. 367-377 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 105; reproduced: pp. 90–91 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: Reproduced: pp. 85-89 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: pp. 85 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.206/1961.206_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.206/1961.206_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.206/1961.206_full.tif