id: 141484 accession number: 1964.94 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.94 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:13.045000 Beggars and Street Characters, 1516. Zhou Chen (Chinese, c. 1450–c. 1536). Handscroll; ink and light color on paper; overall: 31.9 x 244.5 cm (12 9/16 x 96 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1964.94 title: Beggars and Street Characters title in original language: 流氓圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1516 creation date earliest: 1516 creation date latest: 1516 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: Handscroll; ink and light color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Zhou Chen (Chinese, c. 1450–c. 1536) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 31.9 x 244.5 cm (12 9/16 x 96 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 題: 周臣流氓圖. 古堇趙鶴琴 [印] 老鶴臨池; 鵝池軒 translation: remark: inscription: 正德丙子秋七月，閒窗無事 ，偶記素見市道丐者種種態度。乘筆硯之便，率爾圖寫。雖無足觀，亦可以助警勵世俗云。 東邨周臣記 [印]東邨; 舜卿; 鵝場散人 translation: remark: inscription: 吳中東邨周君，善丹青，尤長於人物。此圖其所見盛市丐者之狀種種，各盡其態，觀者絕倒。嗟乎，今之晝夜乞哀以求富貴者，安得起周君而貌之耶。臥雲徵君出示，余漫題其後。 甲子歲十月吳門黃姬水 [印] 士雅山人; 另一印不詳 translation: remark: inscription: 是冊凡數種。其飢寒流離疲癃殘疾之狀，種種之異。觀此而不惻然心傷者，非仁人也。計正德丙子逆瑾之流毒已數年。而[江]彬 [錢] 寧輩肆虐方熾。意分符剖竹諸君，亦鮮有能撫字其民者。然則舜卿此作，殆與鄭君 流民圖同意。其有補於治道者不淺，要不可以墨戲忽之也。 長洲張風翼題 translation: remark: inscription: 東村此筆，蓋圖寫飢寒乞丐之態，以警世俗耳。而質山 [黃姬水]欲其寫昏夜乞哀，而靈墟[張鳳翼]則擬之於安上門圖。二君之見，其各有所指哉。昔唐六如每見周筆，輒稱曰：周先生！蓋深服其神妙之不可及。若此冊者，信非他人可能而有符於六如之心伏矣。豈易得耶。若黃、張之指，則又論於畫之外，不在於形似筆墨之旨也。 萬歷丁丑十二月三日 茂苑文嘉 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1964) opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00 Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Images of the Mind opening date: 1987-07-07T04:00:00 Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987). 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: Human Images opening date: 2001-10-23T00:00:00 Human Images. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (organizer) (October 23-November 25, 2001). 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: Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2019-08-12T04:00:00 Facing the Ancestors: Chinese Portraits and Figure Painting – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 12, 2019-February 2, 2020). title: China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'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': '1980-11-07T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-07-23T04:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE “Wo Yun 卧雲”, probably Feng Zilü 馮子履 [1539–1596] date: footnotes: citations: Chen Xin 陳新 [life dates unknown] date: footnotes: citations: Walter Hochstadter [1914–2007], New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: (N. V. Hammer, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Yang, Xin 楊新. “Zhou Chen de Qishi tu” 周臣的乞食圖 [Zhou Chen’s Beggars] , Meishu yanjiu 美術研究, 2, pp. 85–88. page number: url: Sirén, Osvald. Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles. New York: Ronald Press, 1956. page number: Mentioned: VII, Lists, 177 url: “Acquisitions of Works of Art by Museums and Galleries: Supplement.” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 107, no. 744, 1965, pp. 159–167. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 162-163, figs. 77-79 url: www.jstor.org/stable/874578 “Annual Report for 1964.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 52, no. 6, 1965, pp. 141–166. page number: Mentioned: p. 153 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152054 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. 264 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n288 Lee, Sherman E. “Literati and Professionals: Four Ming Painters.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 53, no. 1, 1966, pp. 2–25. page number: Reproduced: pp. 9, 10, fig. 3. url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152081 Lawton, Thomas. "Scholar and servants." National Palace Museum Bulletin 國立故宮博物院, Vol. 1, no. 5 (Nov. 1966), p. 8-10 page number: Reproduced: pp. 8 and 10 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. 264 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n288 Lee, Sherman E. "The Water and the Moon in Chinese and Modern Painting." Art international, vol. 14 (1970), no. 1, pp. 47-59. page number: Mentioned: p. 56, Reproduced: p. 27 url: 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: pp. 133, 134, figs. 21, 22 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. 350 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n370 Cahill, James. Parting at the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580. New York: Weatherhill, 1978. page number: p. 191 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: Reproduced: cat. no. 160, pp. 194-195 url: Siggstedt, Mette. Zhou Chen: The Life and Paintings of a Ming Professional Artist. [Stockholm]: [Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities], 1983. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. page number: Reproduced: [p. 8 - 9] url: Clunas, Craig. Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China. London: Reaktion Books, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 87, no. 47 url: Time-Life Books. What Life Was Like in the Land of the Dragon: Imperial China, AD 960-1368. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 1 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. 59, cat. no. 35 url: Murphey, Rhoads. A History of Asia. New York: Longman, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 204 url: Thorp, Robert L., and Richard Ellis Vinograd. Chinese Art & Culture. New York: Abrams, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 311 url: Murck, Alfreda. "Images that Amonish." Orientations, vol. 32, number 6 (June 2001), pp. 52-57. page number: Reproduced: p. 53, fig. 2 url: Hyūman imēji: wareware wa ningen o dono yōni hyōgenshite kita no ka?: tokubetsu tenrankai [ヒューマン・イメージ : われわれは人間をどのように表現してきたのか？: 特別展覧会 = Human images]. Kyoto: Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 212, cat. no. 96 url: Mair, Victor H., Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, and Paul Rakita Goldin. Hawai'i reader in traditional Chinese culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2005. page number: Reproduced: pl. 99 url: 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: Reproduced: pp. 264-269 url: Bianchi, Alice. Ghost-Like Beggars in Chinese Painting: The Case of Zhou Chen In: Fantômes dans l'Extrême-Orient d'hier et d'aujourd'hui - Tome 1 [online]. Paris: Presses de l’Inalco, 2017. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: figs. 13, 15, and 17 url: http://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/1484 Park, J. P. A New Middle Kingdom: Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700-1850). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 95, fig 2.19 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.94/1964.94_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.94/1964.94_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.94/1964.94_full.tif