id: 136759 accession number: 1961.261 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.261 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:13.744000 One Hundred Children at Play, 1100s–1200s. Tradition of Su Hanchen (Chinese, active c. 1101–1125), tradition of Wang Juzhen (Chinese). Album leaf; ink and color on silk; image: 28.7 x 31.2 cm (11 5/16 x 12 5/16 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1961.261 title: One Hundred Children at Play title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1100s–1200s creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1299 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: Album leaf; ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Su Hanchen (Chinese, active c. 1101–1125) - artist * Wang Juzhen (Chinese) - artist --- measurements: Image: 28.7 x 31.2 cm (11 5/16 x 12 5/16 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 1 seal unidentified. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Man and His World opening date: 1967-04-27T05:00:00 Man and His World. Expo 67, Montreal, Canada (organizer) (April 27-October 28, 1967). 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: 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: China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail opening date: 2022-12-11T05:00:00 China through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 11, 2022-February 26, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Art of Southern Sung China. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (1962). * Man and His World [= Terre Des Hommes]. International Fine Arts Exhibition, EXPO, Montreal, Canada (April 28-October 27, 1967). * Album leaves from the Sung and Yuan dynasties. China House Gallery, New York, NY (March 26-May 30, 1970). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 11, 2004). --- PROVENANCE C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], 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: Following a baby’s birth, ceremonies and festivities traditionally marked the baby’s successive attainment of thirty days, one hundred days, and one year in age. “One hundred children” paintings such as this album leaf would have been suitable for presentation on either of the latter occasions. digital description: wall description: Paintings on the “one hundred children” theme usually have numerous, if not exactly 100, children. A majority of the children here imitate the dress, manners, and activities of the adult world. Whatever the exact significance of the subject, the painter of this album leaf clearly intended it to be savored figure by figure. With seemingly inexhaustible invention, the artist characterized each performer in the colorful pageant with unique accoutrements and action. The avoidance of overlapping allows each figure to be seen in clear detail, while all the figures are organized into a coherent composition. Garden settings with decorative rocks, blossoming shrubs, graceful willows, and lotus ponds had become fairly standard environments for late twelfth- to thirteenth-century scenes of palace ladies as well as of playing children. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cahill, James. The Art of Southern Sung China. New York: Asia House, 1962. page number: cat. no. 11 url: Lee, Sherman E. and Wai-Kam Ho. "Scattered Pearls beyond the Ocean." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Feb., 1964), pp. 23-39. page number: Reproduced: pp. 23-39, cover, cat. no. 8 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151985 National Gallery of Canada, and Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau). Terre Des Hommes: Exposition Internationale Des Beaux-Arts, 28 Avril-27 Octobre 1967 [= Man and His World, International Fine Arts Exhibition, Expo 67, Montreal, Canada, 28 April-27 October 1967]. Montréal: Expo 67, 1967. page number: cat no. 49 url: Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties: [Exhibition], March 26 Through May 30, 1970. New York: The [China House] Gallery, 1970. page number: cat. no. 30 url: 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: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39, pp. 55-56 url: Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: fig. 44, p. 63 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: Mentioned: p. 47, cat. no. 23 url: 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: p. 317, fig. 16a url: Silbergeld, Jerome, and Dora C. Y. Ching. The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture. Princeton, NJ: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, 2013. page number: Reproduced: fig. 8, p. 315 url: Fortenberry, Diane, ed. The Art Museum. London; New York: Phaidon Press, 2017. page number: Reproduced: P. 83, no. 1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.261/1961.261_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.261/1961.261_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.261/1961.261_full.tif