id: 149413 accession number: 1978.66 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.66 updated: 2025-08-20 12:39:53.643000 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 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1302–3 creation date earliest: 1298 creation date latest: 1308 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254–1322) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 28.6 x 30 cm (11 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 江村漁樂 子昂。 [印] 趙氏子昂 translation: remark: inscription: 1 colophon and 2 additional seals: 1 colophon, unsigned; 2 seals of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907-2003). 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: 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). --- 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'} --- PROVENANCE (C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1978 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1978– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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. url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Sugimura, Tō 杉村棟. Isurāmu イスラーム. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999 page number: Mentioned: p. 145, no. 50 url: 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 url: 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 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. 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: Joo, HaYoung, Bora Lee, Jeonghee Choi, Jihee Jun, and Eurus Collection. Chinese Fans: The Untold Story. Edited by First Edition Translations Ltd. London, Seoul: Scala Arts & Heritage; in association with Eurus Collection, 2023. page number: Reproduced: p. 110, fig. 25 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.66/1978.66_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.66/1978.66_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.66/1978.66_full.tif