id: 148671 accession number: 1976.13 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.13 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:05.903000 Zhongli Quan Crossing the Ocean, 1368–1644. Zhao Qi (Chinese, active early 1500s). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; image: 135 x 57.5 cm (53 1/8 x 22 5/8 in.); overall: 233 x 71.6 cm (91 3/4 x 28 3/16 in.); with knobs: 233 x 77.5 cm (91 3/4 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1976.13 title: Zhongli Quan Crossing the Ocean title in original language: 鍾離權過海圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1368–1644 creation date earliest: 1368 creation date latest: 1644 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Zhao Qi (Chinese, active early 1500s) - artist Zhao Qi (active early 1500s) was a Ming dynasty court painter. --- measurements: Image: 135 x 57.5 cm (53 1/8 x 22 5/8 in.); Overall: 233 x 71.6 cm (91 3/4 x 28 3/16 in.); with knobs: 233 x 77.5 cm (91 3/4 x 30 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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: 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: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions opening date: 1994-10-18T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 18-December 31, 1994). title: Taoism and the Arts of China opening date: 2000-11-11T00:00:00 Taoism and the Arts of China. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (November 11, 2000-January 7, 2001); Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (February 21-May 13, 2001). title: La voie du Tao, un autre chemin de l'Etre opening date: 2010-03-29T00:00:00 La voie du Tao, un autre chemin de l'Etre. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 29-July 5, 2010). title: Escaping to a Better World: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art (Chinese art rotation) opening date: 2022-05-13T04:00:00 Escaping to a Better World: Eccentrics and Immortals in Chinese Art (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 13-November 6, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 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). --- PROVENANCE [Yabumoto Kozo 藪本公三 [20th century], Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art] date: ?-1976 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1976- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Zhongli Quan wears a girdle of leaves, a common Daoist immortal-recluse attribute. digital description: wall description: Here, Zhongli Quan is crossing the ocean. He is one of the Eight Immortals (baxian), a group of popular Daoist figures who understood the way of life and could transform into otherworldly beings. Zhongli Quan is usually depicted as a scholar with a big belly seen through his partially open robe. The artist used expressive brushwork to depict the immortal’s fluttering robe and the roaring waves, skillfully creating a sense of movement.

This scroll may have been one of a set depicting the Eight Immortals. Although the painting has no signature or seal, its style supports an attribution to the Ming dynasty painter Zhao Qi. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 347 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n367 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. 132, pp. 154-155 url: Little, Stephen. Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China : the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 10-April 10, 1988. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. page number: Reproduced: pp. 19, 32-33, cat. no. 6 url: Little, Stephen, and Shawn Eichman. Taoism and the Arts of China. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2000. page number: Reproduced: p. 322, fig. 119 url: Delacour, Catherine. La Voie du Tao: un Autre Chemin de L'être : Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, 29 Mars-5 Juillet 2010. Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux, 2010. page number: Reproduced: pp. 280-281, cat 72.1 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. 242-244 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.13/1976.13_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.13/1976.13_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1976.13/1976.13_full.tif