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The Autumn Hunt

c. 1201–4

attributed to Chen Juzhong

(Chinese, active c. 1201–1207)

China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

album leaf, ink and color on silk

Painting: 24.4 x 27.3 cm (9 5/8 x 10 3/4 in.); with mat: 33.3 x 40.5 cm (13 1/8 x 15 15/16 in.)

Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1930.314

Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The rider at the left has a typical Qidan hairstyle: head shaved on top with thin braids below.

Description

Equestrian pursuits and hunting were particularly popular among the Khitan (also spelled “Qidan”) and Jurchen, ethnic groups who lived along China’s northeastern border. Their nomadic lifestyle intrigued the Chinese court and inspired Chinese artists to develop a painting genre of foreign people hunting.

?-1930
(Edger Worch [1880–1972] Antiquitäten, Berlin, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1930-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Hollis, Howard C. “A Sung Dynasty Album Painting.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 21, no. 4, 1934, pp. 51–53. Reproduced: pp. 51-53 www.jstor.org
Goepper, Roger. 1000 Jahre chinesische Malerei. München [Munich, Germany]: Haus der Kunst, 1959. cat. no. 20
Arts Council of Great Britain, and Basil Gray. Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Arts of the Sung Dynasty. London: Oriental Ceramic Society, 1960. cat. no. 6
Lee, Sherman E. and Wai-Kam Ho. “Three Horses and Four Grooms.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 48, no. 4, 1961, pp. 66–71. Reproduced: fig. 7, p. 69 www.jstor.org
Lee, Sherman E. and Wai-Kam Ho. "Scattered Pearls beyond the Ocean." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Feb., 1964), pp. 23-39. Reproduced: pp. 23-39, cat. no. 4 www.jstor.org
Fitzgerald, C. P., and Norman Kotker. The Horizon History of China. New York: American Heritage Pub. Co, 1969. Reproduced: p. 21
Wang, Chi-chʻien. Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. New York: China House Gallery, the China Institute in America, 1970. cat. no. 15
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. 40, p. 56
Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Beikoka nidai bijutsukan shozō Chūgoku no Kaiga, tokubetsuten [米国二大美術館所蔵中国の絵画, 特別展 = Chinese painting from two American museums: special exhibition]. Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1982. cat. no. 36, pp. 91, 300, 355
Harrist, Robert E., and Virginia Bower. Power and virtue: the horse in Chinese art. New York: China Institute, 1997. Reproduced: p. 37, fig. 13
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]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: p. 45, cat. no. 22
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. 70-71
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. 70-71
Mote, Frederick W. China, von der Sung-dynastie bis zur Chʼing-dynastie. Berlin: Propyläen-verlag, n.d. Reproduced: pl. opp. p.305
Sung, Hou-mei. Galloping through dynasties. Milano, Italy: Skira; Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Museum, 2022. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 40, cat. no. 15
Galloping through Dynasties: Decoding Chinese Horse Painting. The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (October 7, 2022-January 1, 2023) https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/galloping-through-dynasties/.
Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 11-July 13, 2004).
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).
Chinese painting from two American museums : special exhibition [米国二大美術館所蔵中国の絵画, 特別展 = Beikoka nidai bijutsukan shozō Chūgoku no Kaiga, tokubetsuten]. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (OCtober 5–November 17, 1982).
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).
Wang Chi-ch'ien, Album Leaves from the Sung and Yuan Dynasties. China House Gallery (organizer) (March 26-May 30, 1970).
Arts of the Sung Dynasty. Arts Council Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (co-organizer) (June 16-July 23, 1960).
Arts of the Sung Dynasty. Arts Council Gallery, London, UK (June 16-July 23, 1960).
1000 Jahre Chinesische Malerei. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mùnich, Germany (organizer) (October 16-December 13, 1959).
Exhibition of the Month: The Romantic Spirit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-May 5, 1952).
Pomona College, Claremont, CA (1948).
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