id: 147906 accession number: 1974.26 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.26 updated: 2019-11-18 11:26:57.937000 A Prunus in the Moonlight, 1300s. Wang Mian (Chinese, 1287-1359). Hanging scroll, ink on silk; painting: 164.6 x 94.6 cm (64 13/16 x 37 1/4 in.); overall: 260.6 x 116 cm (102 5/8 x 45 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1974.26 title: A Prunus in the Moonlight title in original language: 月下梅花圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1399 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: hanging scroll, ink on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Wang Mian (Chinese, 1287-1359) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 164.6 x 94.6 cm (64 13/16 x 37 1/4 in.); Overall: 260.6 x 116 cm (102 5/8 x 45 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 海雲初破月團團，獨鶴高飛夜未殘。 一片笙簫湖水上，玉妃含笑倚闌干。 王元章作 translation: remark: inscription: 8 additional seals: 6 of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-95); 2 of Dong Gao 董誥 (1740-1818). translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1974 opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 11-April 6, 1975). title: Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques opening date: 1981-02-07T05:00:00 Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 7-March 29, 1981). title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-10T05:00:00 Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982). 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: "Greeting the Spring" – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 239, 241c – February-August 2017 opening date: 2017-02-11T05:00:00 "Greeting the Spring" – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 239, 241c – February-August 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 16, 2003). --- PROVENANCE Qing imperial collection, seals of the Qianlong Emperor, reigned 1736–95 date: footnotes: citations: Dong Gao 董誥 [1740–1818] date: footnotes: citations: Marquis Asano Nagakoto 侯爵 淺野長勲 [1842–1937], Hiroshima, Japan date: footnotes: citations: Yasuda Family 安田家, chief retainer of the Asano Family date: footnotes: citations: (Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1974 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1974-present date: 1974- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This magnificent plum tree under the full moon is a masterwork of powerful brushwork and composition. The artist’s sweeping brushstrokes left traces of so-called flying-white (feibai 飛白) on the branches that, together with the delicately rendered white plum blossoms, appear as reflections of the bright moonlight.The large dimensions of the scroll suggest that it was originally hung in the great hall of a stately home, perhaps during the spring festival. Plum blossoms that bloom in early spring and resist the harsh frosts symbolize endurance in adverse times. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1974." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 62, No. 3, (Mar., 1975), pp. 62-102. page number: Reproduced: p. 90, no. 164 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580 "Annual Report for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 62, no. 6, 1975, pp. 175–209. page number: Reproduced: cover url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152593 Mayuyama, Junkichi. Mayuyama, seventy years = Ryūsen shūhō : sōgyō shichijusshūnen kinen. Tōkyō: Mayuyama Ryūsendō, 1976. page number: Reproduced: Vol. 11, pl. 167 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. 344 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n364 William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Wai-kam Ho. 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: cat. no. 88, p. 108 url: Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 49, fig. 33 url: Mayuyama, Junkichi. Bijutsushō no yorokobi [美術商のよろこび The Joys of an Art Dealer]. Tokyo, Japan: Mayuyama Junkichi, 1988. page number: Reproduced: p. 74-75, pl. 27 url: Little, Stephen. “Dimensions of a Portrait: Du Jin's ‘The Poet Lin Bu Walking in the Moonlight.’” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 75, no. 9, 1988, pp. 330–349. page number: Reproduced: p. 335, fig. 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160049 Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 147-149 url: "New in the Galleries." Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. March/April 2017. page number: Reproduced: back cover url: Spee, Clarissa von. "From the SIlk Road to the Imperial Court: Chinese Textiles in the Cleveland Museum of Art." Arts of Asia 48, no. 3 (May-June 2018): 50-56. page number: Reproduced: p. 56, p. 12 url: Giuffrida, Noelle. Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 155, fig. 87 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.26/1974.26_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.26/1974.26_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.26/1974.26_full.tif