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accession number: 1978.66
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River Village: Fisherman's Joy, c. 1302–3. Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322). Fan painting mounted as album leaf; ink and color on silk; overall: 28.6 x 30 cm (11 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.66
title: River Village: Fisherman's Joy
title in original language: 江村漁樂圖
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creation date: c. 1302–3
creation date earliest: 1298
creation date latest: 1308
current location:
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:
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culture: China, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
technique: Fan painting mounted as album leaf; ink and color on silk
department: Chinese Art
collection: ASIAN - Album leaf
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 28.6 x 30 cm (11 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
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inscriptions:
inscription: 江村漁樂 子昂。 [印] 趙氏子昂
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inscription: 1 colophon and 2 additional seals: 1 colophon, unsigned; 2 seals of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907-2003).
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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: 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: 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).
title: The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection
opening date: 1999-09-03T00:00:00
The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C.C. Wang Family Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 3, 1999-January 9, 2000).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4–July 23, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-03-04T05:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
(C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?–1978
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1978–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959.
page number: cat. no. 63
url:
Cahill, James, and Virginia Field. Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. [New York]: Asia Society; distributed by Abrams, 1967.
page number: p. 19, cat. no. 1.
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Vinograd, Richard. “‘River Village: The Pleasures of Fishing’ and Chao Meng-Fu's Li-Kuo Style Landscapes.” Artibus Asiae, vol. 40, no. 2/3, 1978, pp. 124–142.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 135
url: www.jstor.org/stable/3249802
Ishikawa, Jun 石川淳, Yoshitaka Iriya 入矢義高, Yūjirō Nakata 中田勇次郎, and Hironobu Kohara 古原宏伸. Kō Kōbō, Gei San, Ō Mō, Go Chin [黄公望, 倪瓚, 王蒙, 呉鎮]. Tōkyō: Chūō Kōronsha, 1979.
page number: Reproduced: p. 176, pl. 66
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Lee, Sherman E. "River Village: Fisherman's Joy." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vol. 66, No. 7 (Oct., 1979), pp. 271-288.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 271-288, cover and fig. 1
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159640
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. 80, pp. 99-100
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Li, Chu-tsing. "The Great Tradition in Chinese Painting." Asia Vol. 4, No. 4 (November/December 1981): pp. 32-37 and 42-43.
page number: Reproduced: p. 33
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Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
page number: Mentioned: p. 70; Reproduced: p. 71
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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]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 62, cat. no. 37
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Sugimura, Tō 杉村棟. Isurāmu イスラーム. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999
page number: Mentioned: p. 145, no. 50
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Hearn, Maxwell K. “Shifting Paradigms in Yuan Literati Art: The Case of the Li-Guo Tradition.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 37, 2009, pp. 78–106.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 85, fig. 5
url: www.jstor.org/stable/29550009
Yang, Kathleen 楊凱琳, and Chi-chʻien Wang 王季遷. Through a Chinese connoisseur's eye: private notes of C.C. Wang 王季遷讀書筆記. Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju, 2010.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 308, no. 19
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McCausland, Shane. Zhao Mengfu: Calligraphy and Painting for Khubilai's China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011.
page number: Reproduced: p. 249, fig. 3.25
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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. 100-101
url:
Burnett, Katharine P. "A New Look at a New Look: Painting and Theory of Seventeenth-Century China." Little, Stephen. In 17th-century Chinese paintings from the Tsao family collection. Stephen Little, ed., 130-167. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich, Germany; DelMonico Books, 2016.
page number: Reproduced: p. 155, fig. 47
url:
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