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River Village: Fisherman's Joy

江村漁樂圖

c. 1302–3

Zhao Mengfu 趙孟頫

(Chinese, 1254–1322)

China, Yuan dynasty

(1271-1368)

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.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.66

Location

003 Special Exhibition Hall

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Various human elements can be found in the painting: two fishermen, an individual with a donkey, and someone in the house.

Description

The artist of this blue-green–style landscape, Zhao Mengfu, was a southerner, versed in all fields of literati pursuits, such as calligraphy and connoisseurship. A princeling of the defeated Southern Song dynasty, he was nevertheless successfully recruited by Khubilai Khan to the Mongol court in the new capital, Dadu (modern Beijing), in 1286. This painting combines a distinctively southern flat watery landscape combined with features of the northern landscape tradition, notably the spiky trees, branches, and rough-surfaced rocks.

Inscriptions

Inscription

江村漁樂子昂。 [印] 趙氏子昂

Inscription Translation

Artist's title, signature, and seal: River Village—Fisherman's Joy. Zi'ang. [seal] Zhao shi Zi'ang.

Inscription

1 colophon and 2 additional seals: 1 colophon, unsigned; 2 seals of C. C. Wang 王季遷 (1907-2003).

Provenance

?–1978

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

1978–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München: Haus der Kunst, 1959. cat. no. 63

Cahill, James, and Virginia Field. Fantastics and Eccentrics in Chinese Painting. [New York]: Asia Society; distributed by Abrams, 1967. p. 19, cat. no. 1.

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. Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 135 www.jstor.org

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. Reproduced: p. 176, pl. 66

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. Reproduced: pp. 271-288, cover and fig. 1 www.jstor.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. Reproduced: cat. no. 80, pp. 99-100

Li, Chu-tsing. "The Great Tradition in Chinese Painting." Asia Vol. 4, No. 4 (November/December 1981): pp. 32-37 and 42-43. Reproduced: p. 33

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. Mentioned: p. 70; Reproduced: p. 71

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. Reproduced: p. 62, cat. no. 37

Sugimura, Tō 杉村棟. Isurāmu イスラーム. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1999 Mentioned: p. 145, no. 50

Hearn, Maxwell K. “Shifting Paradigms in Yuan Literati Art: The Case of the Li-Guo Tradition.” Ars Orientalis, vol. 37, 2009, pp. 78–106. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 85, fig. 5 www.jstor.org

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. 308, no. 19

McCausland, Shane. Zhao Mengfu: Calligraphy and Painting for Khubilai's China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. Reproduced: p. 249, fig. 3.25

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. Reproduced: pp. 100-101

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. Reproduced: p. 155, fig. 47

Exhibition history

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 4–July 23, 2003).

Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

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).

Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).

Fans: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1992-March 7, 1993).

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).

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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