id: 148395 accession number: 1976.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.1 updated: 2024-04-24 16:50:35.969000 In the Palace, before 1140. After a work attributed to Zhou Wenju (Chinese, active 942–961). Handscroll; ink and light color on silk; painting: 28.5 x 168.6 cm (11 1/4 x 66 3/8 in.); overall: 29.7 x 306.1 cm (11 11/16 x 120 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1976.1 title: In the Palace title in original language: 宮中圖 series: series in original language: creation date: before 1140 creation date earliest: 1127 creation date latest: 1140 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) technique: Handscroll; ink and light color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Zhou Wenju (Chinese, active 942–961) - artist --- measurements: Painting: 28.5 x 168.6 cm (11 1/4 x 66 3/8 in.); Overall: 29.7 x 306.1 cm (11 11/16 x 120 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 1 colophon and 13 seals: 1 colophon and 1 seal of Zheng Cheng 張澂 (d. 1143); 12 seals unidentified. translation: remark: inscription: Colophon by Zhang Cheng 張澂 (d. 1143): 周文矩宮中圖婦人小兒其數八十，一男子寫神，而粧具、樂器、盆盂、扇椅席、鸚鵡、犬蝶不與。文矩句容人，為江南翰林待詔。作士女體近周昉，而加纖麗。嘗為後主畫南莊圖，號一時絕筆。它日上之朝廷，詔籍之祕閣。宮中圖云是真蹟，藏前太府卿朱載家。或摹以見餽。婦人高髻自唐以來如此。此卷豐肌長襦裙，周昉法也。予至嶠南，於端溪陳高祖之裔，見其世藏諸帝像，左右宮人梳髻與此畧同。而丫鬟乃作兩大鬟，垂 肩項間，雖醜而有真態。李氏自謂南唐，故衣冠多用唐制，然風流寔承六朝之餘。畫家者言辨古畫當先問衣冠車服，蓋謂是也。紹興庚申五月乙酉澹嵒居士題。 印：張澂印章 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review, 1976 opening date: 1977-02-01T05:00:00 Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977). 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 Resonance of the Qin in Far Eastern Art opening date: 1999-09-16T00:00:00 The Resonance of the Qin in Far Eastern Art. China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 16-December 12, 1999). 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: The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in 10th-14th Century Chinese Art opening date: 2019-10-19T04:00:00 The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in 10th-14th Century Chinese Art. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (October 19, 2019-February 16, 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': 'Exhibition of Oriental Art. University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1917, 1922).', 'opening_date': '1917-01-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'The International Exhibition of Chinese Art. Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England (November 28, 1935-March 7, 1936).', 'opening_date': '1935-11-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Pacific Cultures, China. Golden Gate International Exhibition, San Francisco, CA (1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-01-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 20-April 22, 2002).', 'opening_date': '2002-01-20T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 22-October 26, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-07-22T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 19, 2004-April 21, 2005).', 'opening_date': '2004-10-19T04:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Zhang Cheng 張澂 [d. 1143] date: ?–1143 footnotes: citations: Shen Zhou 沈周 [1427–1509] date: ?–1509? footnotes: citations: (C. T. Loo & Co., New York, NY) date: early 1900s footnotes: citations: The University Museum, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: before 1928–1976 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1976– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fernald, Helen Elizabeth. "Ladies of the court, an early Chinese scroll painting." Museum Journal. v. 19, no. 4 [December 1928], pp. 333–349. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 333û349 url: The Chinese Exhibition; A Commemorative Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, November 1935-March 1936. London: Faber and Faber, 1936. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 894, pp. 68, 87 url: Pacific Cultures, Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures. San Francisco, CA: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. page number: Reproduced: no. 154, pl. N; Mentioned: p. 38 url: Loehr, Max. "Chinese Paintings with Sung Dated Inscriptions." Ars orientalis: the arts of Islam and the East Volume 4 (1961): 219–284. page number: Mentioned: p. 252 url: https://archive.org/details/arsorientalisart41961univ/page/252 Loehr, Max. "Chinese Paintings with Sung Dated Inscriptions." Ars orientalis: the arts of Islam and the East Volume 4 (1961): 219–284. page number: Mentioned: p. 252 url: https://archive.org/details/arsorientalisart41961univ/page/252 Yashiro, Yukio. Nihon bijutsu no saikentō [Japanese art re-examined = 日本美術の再検討]. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1978. page number: Reproduced: fig. 102 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. 339 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n359 Watson, William. L'art de l'ancienne Chine. Paris: Mazenod, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pl. 41 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. 16, pp. 27–29 url: Fu, Shen C. Y. and Jan Stuart. Challenging the Past: The Paintings of Chang Dai-Chien. Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 150, fig. 82 url: Addiss, Stephen, Kenneth J. DeWoskin, and Mitchell Clark. The resonance of the qin in East Asian art. New York: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 1999. page number: Reproduced: pp. 68–69, cat. no. 6 url: Chung, Anita. "Collaboration and Commemoration: Cleveland's Masterpieces at the Shanghai Museum." Orientations 43:8 (Nov/Dec 2012): 90–95. page number: Reproduced: pp. 90–91, fig. 1 url: Shanghai bo wu guan. Han mo ju zhen: Zhongguo Riben Meiguo cang Zhongguo gu dai shu hua yi shu [翰墨聚珍: 中國日本美國藏中國古代書畫藝術 = Treasures in the spotlight: art of early Chinese painting and calligraphy in Chinese, Japanese and American collections]. Shanghai Shi: Shanghai shu hua chu ban she, 2012. page number: Reproduced: pp. 84–85, fig. 39 url: Shanghai bo wu guan. 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: Mentioned: pp. 329–337, Reproduced: cat no. 39 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. 44–49 url: Blanchard, Lara C. W. Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire: Gender and Interiority in Chinese Painting and Poetry. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 29–31, 34, 40; Reproduced: p. 42–45, fig. 2.1- 2.4 url: Kwok, Zoe S. The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum, 2019. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 131–132, no. 23 url: Hu, Luwen. "From Grassland to Garden-on the Embroidery Nine Goats Heralding the New Year." Orientations 50, no. 5 (Sept/Oct 2019): 120–129. page number: Reproduced: p. 124 url: Blanchard, Lara C. W. "Defining a Female Subjectivity: Gendered Gazes and Feminist Reinterpretations in the Art of Cui Xiuwen and Yu Hong." (En)Gendering: Chinese Women's Art in the Making 28, no. 1 (February 2020): 177–205. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 184–185, fig. 4 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.1/1976.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.1/1976.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.1/1976.1_full.tif