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Xu Jingyang Moving His Family

1644

Cui Zizhong 崔子忠

(Chinese, 1574-1644)

China, Ming dynasty

(1368-1644)

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk

Overall: 268.2 x 66 cm (105 9/16 x 26 in.); Painting only: 165.3 x 64 cm (65 1/16 x 25 3/16 in.); Overall with knobs: 268.2 x 74.1 cm (105 9/16 x 29 3/16 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1961.90

Location

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Description

This scroll depicts the legend of Xu Zhengyang, who attained the Dao (the Way) by moving his family to the land of the immortals in AD 281, accompanied by a lucky dog and rooster. Xu can be seen in the upper register of figures, while the servants below accompany the bird and dog. This style of the painting, particularly of the figures, is characteristic for the artist and displays a willful, consistent combination of allusions to the great masters of the distant past. In this, Cui is like his contemporary Chen Hongshou, with whom he is compared as "Chen of the South and Cui of the North."

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Inscription

Artist's 2 seals: Pei-hai, Cui Zizhong yin.

Inscription

9 additional seals: 2 of Hsiang Yüan (18th-19th c.); 1 of T'ang Tso-mei (late 18th c.-19th c.); 1 of Chang Heng (1915-1963); 1 of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907–2003); 4 unidentified.

Provenance

T'ang Yü-chao

?-1961

(C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1961-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Ho, Wai-Kam. “Nan-Ch'en Pei-Ts'ui: Ch'en of the South and Ts'ui of the North.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 49, no. 1, 1962, pp. 2–11. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 9, 10, figs. 4-6 www.jstor.org

Cahill, James. The Restless Landscape: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Period. Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1971. cat. no. 76

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 353 archive.org

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. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 209, pp. 273-274

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. Mentioned: p. 285, no. 314

Andrews, Julia Frances. The Significance of Style and Subject Matter in the Painting of Cui Zizhong. PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1984. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 47, pp. 342-344

Little, Stephen. Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China: the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 10-April 10, 1988. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. cat. no. 4, pp. 30-31

Barnhart, Richard M., Xin Yang, Chongzheng Nie, James Cahill, Shaojun Lang, and Hung Wu. Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press; Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1997. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 241, no. 226

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. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 312, fig. 33

Exhibition history

The Restless landscape: Chinese painting of the Late Ming period. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (November 9, 1971-January 2, 1972); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February 12-April 2, 1972).

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).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH (July 16-October 28, 2003).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 242). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH (November 21, 2013-July 28, 2014).

Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961).

Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 10, 1988).

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