id: 149393 accession number: 1978.49 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.49 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:42.693000 Plum Blossoms in Moonlight, first half of the 1300s. Yan Hui (Chinese, active 1270–1310). Album leaf, ink on silk; image: 26 x 28.3 cm (10 1/4 x 11 1/8 in.); overall: 33.3 x 40.4 cm (13 1/8 x 15 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1978.49 title: Plum Blossoms in Moonlight title in original language: 月梅圖 series: series in original language: creation date: first half of the 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1350 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: album leaf, ink on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Album leaf type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Yan Hui (Chinese, active 1270–1310) - artist Yan Hui was a professional painter skilled in painting landscapes, figures, deities, and ghosts. He was a native of Luling 廬陵, Jiangxi 江西 province, active in the late Southern Song and early Yuan dynasty. --- measurements: Image: 26 x 28.3 cm (10 1/4 x 11 1/8 in.); Overall: 33.3 x 40.4 cm (13 1/8 x 15 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 顏輝 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1978 opening date: 1979-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 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: Fans: East and West opening date: 1992-12-15T05:00:00 Fans: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1992-March 7, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice: The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (January 22-March 24, 1985); Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (April 17-June 30, 1985); St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (September 6-November 3, 1985).', 'opening_date': '1985-01-22T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Akaboshi family 赤星家, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (Jean-Pierre Dubosc [1904–1988], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ? by 1972-1978 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1978- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Dubosc, Jean-Pierre. “Plum Blossoms in Moonlight: A Round Fan Painting Signed Yen Hui.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 26, 1972, pp. 67–70. page number: Reproduced: pp. 67-70, fig. 2 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20111043 Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 66, no. 1, 1979, pp. 3–47. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 149, p. 34; Mentioned: p. 5, p. 46 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613 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. 9, p. 110 url: Ortiz, Valérie Malenfer. Dreaming the southern song landscape: the power of illusion in Chinese painting. Leiden: Brill, 1999. page number: Reproduced: plate 57 url: Fong, Wen, and Jerome Silbergeld, editor. Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong. Princeton, NJ: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 2011. page number: Reproduced: p. 71, fig. 4 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 85-89 url:
Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.
page number: Reproduced: p. 85 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.49/1978.49_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.49/1978.49_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.49/1978.49_full.tif