id: 149590 accession number: 1979.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.18 updated: 2025-04-01 11:09:47.558000 A Vignette of Life on the Frontier, c. 1717–22. Jiao Bingzhen (Chinese, active c. 1670–1726), and Giuseppe Castiglione (Italian, 1688–1766). Folding fan; ink and color on paper; painting: 19 x 55 cm (7 1/2 x 21 5/8 in.); overall with sticks: 33 x 55 cm (13 x 21 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Eleanor and Morris Everett 1979.18 title: A Vignette of Life on the Frontier title in original language: 塞上野趣圖 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1717–22 creation date earliest: 1717 creation date latest: 1722 current location: creditline: Gift of Eleanor and Morris Everett copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi period (1662-1722) technique: Folding fan; ink and color on paper department: Chinese Art collection: China - Qing Dynasty type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jiao Bingzhen (Chinese, active c. 1670–1726) - artist Court painter largely active during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor. He was one of the early Chinese painters to use Western techniques. * Giuseppe Castiglione (Italian, 1688–1766) - artist Italian Jesuit missionary and painter, who worked in China. He served as an artist at the imperial court of three emperors: the Kangzi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong emperors. He painted in a style that is a fusion of European and Chinese traditions. --- measurements: Painting: 19 x 55 cm (7 1/2 x 21 5/8 in.); Overall with sticks: 33 x 55 cm (13 x 21 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 塞上野趣圖。奉勅寫真。臣焦秉貞郞世寧合筆恭繪。[印]秉貞; 世寧. translation: remark: inscription: 2 seals of the Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-95). 12 poems by the Qianlong emperor and inscribed in clerical script by Wang Youdun 汪由敦 (1692-1758). translation: remark: inscription: 1 poem incised on the outer ribs of the fan, front and back by Dong Bangda 董邦達 (1699–1769). translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). title: Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting opening date: 1981-02-11T05:00:00 Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 11-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). 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': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003).', 'opening_date': '2003-07-23T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Qing imperial collection (seals of the Qianlong Emperor, r. 1736–1795) date: 1736-? footnotes: citations: (David Newman [1936–2012], London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1979 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1979- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 116, p. 86; Mentioned: p. 62 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667 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. 261, pp. 353-354 url: Suzuki, Kei 鈴木敬. Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku [中國繪畫總合圖錄= Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings], 第1卷. アメリカ·カナダ篇[= vol. 1 American and Canadian collections]. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1982. page number: #A22-221 url: Chung, Anita. Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: July 27, 2013-January 26, 2014, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. page number: Reproduced: p. 25, fig. 7 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. 431-433 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.18/1979.18_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.18/1979.18_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.18/1979.18_full.tif