id: 149684 accession number: 1979.72 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.72 updated: 2025-06-05 11:07:15.276000 The Ninth Day Literary Gathering at Xing’an [Temporary Retreat], 1743. Fang Shishu (Chinese, 1693–1751), and Ye Fanglin (Chinese, active late 1600s–mid-1700s). Handscroll; ink and color on silk; image: 32.4 x 201.2 cm (12 3/4 x 79 3/16 in.); overall: 33.5 x 893 cm (13 3/16 x 351 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1979.72 title: The Ninth Day Literary Gathering at Xing’an [Temporary Retreat] title in original language: 九日行庵文讌圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1743 creation date earliest: 1743 creation date latest: 1743 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: Handscroll; ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fang Shishu (Chinese, 1693–1751) - artist * Ye Fanglin (Chinese, active late 1600s–mid-1700s) - artist --- measurements: Image: 32.4 x 201.2 cm (12 3/4 x 79 3/16 in.); Overall: 33.5 x 893 cm (13 3/16 x 351 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Fang Shishu's seal at beginning of painting: Ou ran shi de 偶然拾得. Ye Fanglin's seal at end of painting: Fanglin 芳林. Frontispiece title dated 1743 and 3 seals of Chen Bangyan 陳邦彦 (1678-1752). translation: remark: inscription: 行庵在揚州北郭天寧寺西隅,馬君嶰谷半槎兄弟購僧房隙地所築,以為游息之處也。寺為晉謝太傅別墅。西隅饒古木,䨴鬱陰森,入林最僻,不知其近郛郭。庵居其中,無斲礱髤采之飾,惟軒庭多得清蔭,來憩者每流連而不能去。乾隆癸亥九日,積雨既收,風日清美,遂約同人,咸集於斯,中縣[懸]仇英白描陶靖節像,采黃花,酌白醪為供,乃以人世難逢開口笑,菊花雖插滿頭歸分韻賦詩。陶陶衎衎,觴詠竟日。既逾月,吳中寫真葉君敬[震]初適來,群貌小像,合為一卷,方君環山補景,命曰九日行庵文讌圖。裝池成,將各書所作於後,而囑鶚為之記。記按圖中共坐短榻者二人:右箕踞者,為武陵胡復齋先生期恆;左抱膝者,為天門唐南軒先生建中也。坐繩床者二人:中手牋者,歙方環山士庶;左仰首如欲語者,江都閔玉井華也。一人坐藤塾捻髭者,鄞全謝山祖望也。一人倚石坐若凝思者,臨潼張漁川四科也。樹下二人:離立把菊者,錢唐厲樊榭鶚;袖手者,錢唐陳竹町章也。一人憑石床坐撫琴者,江都程香溪先生夢星也。聽者三人:一人垂袖立者,祁門馬半查曰璐;二人坐瓷塾,左倚樹、右跂腳者,歙方西疇士疌 、汪恬齋玉樞也。二人對坐展卷者,左祁門馬嶰谷曰琯,右吳江王梅沂藻也。一人觀者,負手立於右,江都陸南圻鐘輝也。從後相倚觀者一人,歙洪曲溪振珂也。童子種菊者三人:樹間侍立者一人,撰杖、執卷者各一人。其植有蕉、有竹,又有雜樹,作丹黃青碧之色,紀時也。夫重九佳名,舉俗所重,而高常侍歎獨坐而搔首,陸天隨感登高以剫門,無其時地與人耳。今吾儕幸生太平,遇勝地,又皆素心有文之侶,固人世不可多得之會;而此十六人者,或土斷,或客游,聚散不常。異日者,歲月遷流,撫節物以有懷,一披此圖,悅如晤對。將來覽者,或亦不異此意乎。甲子夏五十有四日厲鴞記並書。 translation: remark: inscription: 揚州為江北大都會,居民連甍接楹,笙歌輿從,竟日喧聚,其於淸歌雅集,葢罕矣。城北天寧寺,為晉謝公駐節時所游息,其中有行庵,吾友馬君嶰谷、半查兄弟之小築也。地不踰五畝,而老樹古藤,森蔚相望,皆千百年物,間以修竹,春鳥秋蟲,更唱迭和,其間曲廊高榭,位置閑適。出門未數百步,即黃塵濁流極目,令人作惡。而此中獨蕭然有人外之思。乾隆八年九日,嶰谷兄弟招集同社一十四人祀陶公,出所藏仇實父白描像懸於閣上,各賦一詩。予方留滯西泠,未得預也。又踰旬而予至,諸君方擬繪圖記事,嶰谷曰:是不可無君。乃以展日更舉,令予得陪卷軸之末;而洪君曲溪,兩度皆以病失約,然故吟社中人也,亦補入焉。予太息謂諸君曰:謝公之風流,千古如在;然其游息於斯也,則與東山賓從之樂稍不同矣。公之為是行也,蓋以符氏之亂,思北定中原也。而其時公巳困於讒口,不自安於朝;雖在河朔極有可乘之會,而神明內索,徘徊不克自前。老師左次,竟無尺寸之功,坐失事幾。吾常過邵伯之埭,吊法雲之荒祠,未嘗不喟然累啼,以為明德之衰也。至若九日嘉名,陶公高格,固在羲皇懷葛之間;然而讀其 止酒之詩,蒼梧漢水之感,以瘦詞寄其孤憤則夫黃花白酒,蓋亦不得巳而漫與焉者。今吾輩生逢太平之日,書淫墨癖,是處留連,胸次中了無一事,為江湖之幸民,論人雖甚媿,論其時與地,則不可不私相慶也。諸君曰:善。圖之詳巳見於厲君樊榭記中。予之許為嶰谷兄弟序斯圖也,三年於茲;今夏重披圖捉筆,而唐丈南軒,巳化為異物矣。對酒當歌,人生幾何,願與諸君並日相遇從焉。丙寅夏杪孤山社小泉翁全祖望序。 translation: remark: inscription: 6 additional colophons and 15 additional seals: 1 colophon, dated 1746, and 1 seal of Huang Zhijun 黃之雋 (1668-after 1746); 1 colophon and 2 seals of Zha Xiang 查祥 (1718 jinshi); 1 colophon, dated 1746, and 3 seals of Zhang Siwen 張思問; 1 colophon, dated 1748, and 4 seals of Shao Dong 卲東 (1721 jinshi); 1 colophon, dated 1753, and 2 seals of Fang Shiju 方世舉 (signing as Fang Funan 方扶南); 1 colophon, dated 1808, of Ruan Yuan 阮元 (1764–1849); 3 seals unidentified. 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: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Scholar's Studio opening date: 1989-09-19T04:00:00 Scholar's Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989). title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). 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': '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).', 'opening_date': '1980-11-07T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1983).', 'opening_date': '1983-01-01T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': "The Elegant Brush: Chinese Painting under the Ch'ien-lung. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (August 25-October 6, 1985); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (February 8-March 23, 1986); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 13-August 13, 1986).", 'opening_date': '1985-08-25T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'The Eccentric Painters of Yangzhou. China Institute in America, New York, NY (October 20-December 15, 1990).', 'opening_date': '1990-10-20T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2013-July 28, 2014).', 'opening_date': '2013-11-21T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Ma Yueguan 馬曰琯 [1688–1755] and Ma Yuelu 馬曰璐 [1697–after 1766], Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China date: 1743–after 1766 footnotes: *