The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Drinking in the Moonlight
late 1100s–early 1200s
(Chinese, c. 1150-after 1255)
Painting: 24.5 x 25 cm (9 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.); Overall: 67.6 x 39.2 cm (26 5/8 x 15 7/16 in.)
Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1997.89
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The gentleman depicted is relaxing with a cup of wine in his hand.Description
Once the moon rises and the wine is finished, perhaps the reclined tipsy gentleman will return to the stone table, where ink, paper, and brush can be seen. For moon enthusiasts in Hangzhou, there was a site named Yue Yan, or Moon Cliff, behind the imperial precincts on Mount Fenghuang. With its geographical features of receding craggy rocks leading to the framed full moon, there is good reason to believe that the scene depicts this specific site.The association of this painting with Ma Yuan is stylistically based. However, the brushwork accords more with the aesthetic approach of his son, Ma Lin.
- Cheng Qi 程琦 [1911–1988]C. C. Wang 王季遷 [1907–2003], New York, NYby 1980–1997Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry [1911–1996], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art1997–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHProvenance Footnotes1 The order of its early 20th century provenance is unclear. The Eight Dynasties catalogue (1980) suggests that the painting went from Cheng Qi to the Perry collection. The more recent publication Yang (2010), however, includes C.C. Wang in the ownership history. K. Yang (2010), p. 307, no. 18: "Recent provenance: Cheng Qi 程琦 (20th century; a dealer in Japan); C.C. Wang." Ho, Lee, et al. (1980), p. 71, cat. no. 53: "Recent provenance: Ch'eng Ch'i. Intended gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Perry."
- 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. Referenced: cat. no. 53, p. 71Suzuki, 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. Reproduced: #A22-006, p. I-260Li, Huishu. Exquisite Moments: West Lake & Southern Song Art. New York: China Institute Gallery, China Institute: Distributed by Art Media Resources, Ltd., 2001. no. 7Steuber, Jason. China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature. New York: Welcome Books, 2007. Reproduced: p. 77Yang, 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. 307, fig. 18Edwards, Richard. The Heart of Ma Yuan: The Search for a Southern Song Aesthetic. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. Reproduced: Pg. 240, Fig. 8.6; xi, pl.51Chou, 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. 72-75
- China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).Power and Possession: Chinese Calligraphy and Inscribed Objects – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 13, 2018-February 3, 2019).West Lake and the Mapping of Southern Song Art. China Institute Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (September 13-December 9, 2001).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).
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